Mvuyo Tom

Tom was trained as a medical doctor, before moving into public health management in the Eastern Cape, ultimately serving for six years as the director general of the region's health and welfare department.{{cite news |last1=Macfarlane |first1=David |title=Carrying on the conversation |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2007-10-22-carrying-on-the-conversation |access-date=1 August 2019 |work=Mail & Guardian |publisher=Mail & Guardian |date=22 October 2007}} In 1994, Tom was awarded the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights.{{cite web |title=The Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights |url=https://www.kff.org/the-nelson-mandela-award-for-health-and-human-rights/ |website=KFF |publisher=Kaiser Family Foundation |access-date=1 August 2019}}

Tom was appointed as the director of the School of Public Management and Development at the University of Fort Hare in 2005, and went on to become the university's vice-chancellor in 2008,{{cite news |last1=Ford |first1=Simthandile |title=Fort Hare celebrates VC's new professorship |work=Daily Dispatch |date=26 October 2016}} taking over from Professor Derrick Swarz.{{cite news |last1=Fengu |first1=Msinisi |title=UFH boss to step down in 2014 |work=Daily Dispatch |date=31 July 2012}} During his tenure as vice-chancellor, Tom commented publicly on the Fees Must Fall movement, comparing the damage being done to university campuses to the Xhosa cattle killing in the 1850s.{{cite journal |last1=Bank |first1=Leslie J |title=Sobukwe's children: nationalism, neo-liberalism and the student protests at the University of Fort Hare and in South Africa |journal=Anthropology Southern Africa |date=2018 |volume=41 |issue=3 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327328548_Sobukwe's_children_nationalism_neo-liberalism_and_the_student_protests_at_the_University_of_Fort_Hare_and_in_South_Africa}} He stood down as vice-chancellor, and was appointed a professor by the university, in 2016, to be replaced by the current incumbent, Sakhela Buhlungu.{{Cite news |date=9 November 2016 |title=University of Fort Hare appoints Prof Sakhela Buhlungu as new vice chancellor |language=en-US |work=DispatchLIVE |url=https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2016-11-09-university-of-fort-hare-appoints-prof-sakhela-buhlungu-as-new-vice-chancellor/ |access-date=13 January 2023}}

Tom currently serves as deputy chairperson on the board of Tekano Health Equity in South Africa,{{cite web |title=Prof. Mvuyo Tom, Deputy Chairperson |url=https://www.tekano.org.za/dr-mvuyo-tom |website=Tekano |publisher=Tekano |access-date=1 August 2019}} and he also serves on the board of the Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation.{{cite web |title=Myuvo Tom |url=http://www.tambofoundation.org.za/trustees/mvuyo-tom/ |website=Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation |publisher=Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation |access-date=1 August 2019}}

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