Prof. Imraan Valodia-Dean of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand

I met first Imraan at the University of Natal in the mid-1990's when he worked for the Trade Union Research Project (TURP) that was based on the campus. We used to play football on the weekends.

These days he is the Dean of Commerce, Law and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand.

He recently chaired the Advisory Panel on the National Minimum Wage.

We chatted about his journey from trade union researcher into university management and spoke along the way about the current state of the trade union movement, the national minimum wage, the dilemmas that faced university management in the face of the Fees Must Fall movement and the role of a university in South Africa today.