Talk:Max Price

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The last paragraph of this article is libellous and incorrect as are the two references and hvae been changed as follows: There are 2 reference which have been removed. The content of the first URL has changed and now references the CV of someone else - the new incumbent of the position that Max Price vacated in 2018. So it is not possible to provide a reference or citation for an incorrect out of date citation. I have however, added a new citation to a URL/Pdf on the institution's (University of Cape Town's) website that gives the correct CV.

The second reference claimed to be a support for a position stated in the last paragraph of the article that Max Price has withheld information about admissions, maintaining white dominance and white interests. If you follow the link, the news article says no such thing. I have deleted this paragraph because it is libellous and I am raising it with the Wikipedia authorities to have it removed from the history as well. I have written a fuller article to supplement the current stub but since I am associated with the subject of the article, to avoid conflict of interest I wish to submit it in the proper way to external editors and not post it myself. CritthinkCT (talk) 11:45, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Substantial expansion of stub - requesting edit

Extended content

CritthinkCT (talk) 00:59, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Dr Max Price was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town for 10 years from July 2008 to June 2018. He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.

In 2019 he was appointed as Member Expert Commission, Fondation Botnar.

Education and awards

Price has an MBBCh degree from the University of the Witwatersrand which he obtained in 1979; a BA (Hons) PPE (Oxon 1983); an M.Sc in Community Health in 1986 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and a Diploma in Occupational Health from the University of the Witwatersrand.

He was a Rhodes Scholar, a recipient of one of the Four Outstanding Young South Africans Awards (1992), a Takemi Fellow in International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (1994–5) and elected an Honorary Fellow ad eundum of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa in Public Health Medicine (2004).

Political activism

In his student days at Wits he was politically active against apartheid as president of the Student Representative Council and member of the executive of the National Union of South African Students. In the 1980s and 1990s his activism continued through the anti-apartheid National Medical And Dental Association of which he was an executive member.

Early career – researcher

During his early career, Dr Price's professional work included clinical work in hospitals and rural primary health care. He was a research fellow in health economics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (1985–1987). Returning to South Africa, he became a senior researcher in, and then director of the Centre for Health Policy at Witwatersrand University (1988–1995). Dr Price has published extensively including in local and international refereed journal articles, technical papers and in the public media on health systems research, political economy of health; health economics and financing; privatisation and medical aids; rural health services; computer simulation modelling of health systems; medical education and human resources. He was a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation: The International Journal of Public Health, 1999–2010; and a reviewer for other public health journals.

Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand (1996–2006)

At the age of 40, Dr Price was appointed dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1996 to 2006. As Dean, he spearheaded a series of transformation initiatives, including the Internal Reconciliation Commission. He established a new graduate entry medical programme, academic programmes in rural health, bioethics, sports medicine, emergency medicine, and biomedical sciences. He also founded South Africa's first university-owned private teaching hospital, and the first university research company.

Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town (2008–2018)

In 2008 Max Price was appointed the 9th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. During the decade of his stewardship UCT consistently ranked in the top 200 universities globally in the Times Higher Education rankings and the top university in Africa in almost all ranking systems.

Key initiatives and developments at UCT during Dr Price’s term of office:

• Increased research output and impact – 85% increase in number of peer-reviewed publications; doubling of National Research Foundation rated researchers; 43% increase in masters and doctoral students; trebling of research income

• Growth in international student numbers and research collaborations

• The establishment the Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking

• The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance

• The Global Citizen Initiative

• The launching of MOOCs and on-line courses

• Open access policy and repositories

• New infrastructure projects – residences, lecture theatres, IT, buildings for schools of economics, engineering and student administration

• Insourcing of previously outsourced workers and services

• Vice-Chancellor Strategic Initiatives (university-wide trans-disciplinary research initiatives to address key national challenges):
  • African Climate and Development Initiative
  • Safety and Violence Initiative
  • Poverty and Inequality Initiative
  • Schools Improvement Initiative

• Over R3bn raised for academic projects, financia aid for students, buildings and the university endowment.

Student and worker protests (2015–2016)

In the years 2015 to 2016, the university experienced a challenging, often traumatic series of student and worker protests which were part of a national protest movement. The two key issues were the demand for free education (#FeesMustFall) and secondly decolonisation and transformation (#RhodesMustFall). The protests have also paralleled similar student movement protests around the world relating to identity politics, LGBTIQA+ rights and recognition, gender based violence, and issues of disability and mental health. A third issue was union demands for outsourced workers to be re-insourced. As Vice-Chancellor, his leadership of the university management’s approach to the protests generated criticism from many sides – some arguing that the unlawful protests should not be sanctioned by negotiations but rather by sterner disciplinary actions and firmer use of security, and that he was too appeasing of the demands. Others argued that the Executive was not sensitive enough to student suffering and experience of alienation and that the use of private security and police to control violent protests was unnecessary.

Dr Price played a prominent role nationally in engaging government and the public on the various issues including proposals for fees and financial aid, debates on statues and art and building names that reflected the colonial legacy, institutional racism, insourcing, and the boundaries of legitimate protest and use of security forces.

International leadership positions in higher education

In his capacity as Vice-Chancellor, Max Price was a member of various international university networks and elected to leadership positions:

• Worldwide Universities Network: Chairperson of the Board comprising all University Presidents 2014–2016; Vice Chairperson 2013–2014 and 2016–2017
• Member of the Council (governing body) of the University of Ghana, Legon (2011–2018)
• Co-founder and first chair of African Research Universities Alliance – created to strengthen links between research universities in Africa
• Member of the Global Council of Hanban, the Headquarters of the Confucius Institutes, Beijing
• Member of the Global Universities Leaders’ Forum (GULF) of the World Economic Forum

Other professional activities

Following the first democratic elections in South Africa, Dr Price served as Chair of the Ministerial Committee on Health Care Financing. He was also a member of the WHO/FAO/UNDP Tropical Disease Research programme (TDR) special task force on impact of health financing reform on tropical diseases. He has undertaken numerous consultancies in the fields of public health, health policy, medical education, and human resources for health for government, NGOs, philanthropic foundations and private companies. He is a member of the Board of Directors of CORC (Community Organisation Resources Centre.)

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CritthinkCT (talk) 00:59, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Reply 17-APR-2019

  Edit request declined  

• Your edit request was declined because the text is insufficiently paraphrased from the source material. The majority of the copied text comes from these two sources:

1. The Southern African Regional Universities Association website biographical page on Price
2. Price's CV

• Text which is to be added to an article must be written using an editor's own words and phrasing. Furthermore, the purpose of Wikipedia is not to act as a mirror for information found in the subject's resume, per WP:NOTCV. More information on the closely paraphrased materials requirement may be found here.

Regards,  Spintendo  01:17, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Following up Spintendo's Decline of Edit request

Thank you @Spintendo for the feedback. I would like to suggest that you comment on a few paragraphs at a time to say whether these meet the criteria. Paragraphs to be added:

He was a Rhodes Scholar, a recipient of one of the Four Outstanding Young South Africans Awards (1992), a Takemi Fellow in International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (1994–5) and elected an Honorary Fellow ad eundum of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa in Public Health Medicine (2004).

• Political activism

In his student days at Wits he was politically active against apartheid as president of the Student Representative Council and member of the executive of the National Union of South African Students. In the 1980s and 1990s his activism continued through the anti-apartheid National Medical And Dental Association of which he was an executive member. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CritthinkCT (talk • contribs) 14:34, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

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Requested feedback 18-APR-2019

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ISSUES WITH THE FIRST PARAGRAPH

• References used
  • The paragraph contains many different claims, but they are all referenced to one source: the subject himself. These need to be given separate citations from the awarding organizations, per WP:INTEGRITY

Note the examples below:

Examples

INCORRECT

The Sun's diameter is 864,337.3 miles, while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles. The Sun's temperature is 5,778 degrees Kelvin.^[1]

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      1. Sjöblad, Tristan. The Sun. Academic Press, 2018, p. 1.

In the first example above there is one reference provided, but the claim statements are not able to be referenced by this one item. Each separate claim ought to be referenced by its own source. Multiple claims given by the same source when that source is the subject himself are controversial and likely to be removed, per WP:BLPSELFPUB.

CORRECT

The Sun's diameter is 864,337.3 miles, while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles. The Sun's temperature is 5,778 degrees Kelvin.

References

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In the text above, each distinct claim has its own reference.

ISSUES WITH THE SECOND PARAGRAPH

• With regards to the SAJR source
  • SAJR states "Our first duty is to report accurately. We will take care to evaluate information provided to us and to cross-check it as much as possible before publishing. We will show readers and users the chain of evidence we have." With respect to claims that Wits' student days were "politically active", these have not been offered along with the appurtenant chain of evidence for these claims.

• With regards to the National Medical and Dental Association document
  • As the claim involves "activism", which is a broad term, the specificness of this document nor its independence from the subject matter cannot be assertained.

• With regards to the NPPHCN/SAHSSO Policy Conference 1992 document
  • The information published there which is provided for verification of the claims of activism in the edit request proposal were provided by the subject himself, as the chairperson of the steering committee. That he was an executive member of this committe may be mentioned and referenced by this document. That he was "politically active" or that his "activism continued" should ideally be provided by a source other than the subject himself. As As I stated earlier, the subject himself ought not to be the source for a majority of the information provided in an article, per WP:BLPSELFPUB.

Regards,  Spintendo  00:40, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: AFST 107-01 Social Media and the African World

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 August 2025 and 15 December 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): SXM07 (article contribs).

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