Governance is integral to the knowledge project, its research agenda and social impact, language policies, curriculum transformation, student engagement, community responsibility and the role of the intellectual. The classical idea of the university as central to the knowledge and as egalitarian project have been steadily eroded within neoliberal universities. Knowledge is more appraised for its commercial value and ability to generate funding and resources, not for its ability for discovery. Administrative bureaucracy is becoming increasingly uncivil and alienating in its treatment of human labour. New managerialism combines the policing of academics with the outsourcing of lowly paid employees and the creation of precarious employment. The chapter leans on reflective practice and draws from the South African paradox of the post-1994 democratic dispensation and academic capitalism that has become the dominant discourse. Recommendations to disrupt the neoliberal agenda are provided within a decolonial paradigm that advocates humane governance frameworks that value equity, democracy and social justice.