Malegapuru Makgoba

Malegapuru William Makgoba OMS
Makgoba delivering the James C. Hill Memorial Lecture at the NIH Campus in Bethesda in 2001.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal
In office 1 January 2004 – 31 December 2014
Personal details
Born	1952 Sekhukhune, Transvaal Union of South Africa
Alma mater	University of Natal University of Oxford
Website	makgoba.ukzn.ac.za

Malegapuru William Makgoba (born 1952 in Sekhukhune, South Africa) is a leading South African immunologist, physician, public health advocate, academic and former vice-chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In 2013 he was recognised as "a pioneer in higher education transformation",^[1] by being awarded the Order of Mapungubwe in Silver.