A professor of Religious Studies who serves as the chair of the disciplinary committee that hears David’s sexual harassment case. Like Farodia Rassool, Mathabane recognizes David’s insincerity throughout the disciplinary hearing and repeatedly tries to persuade him to treat the process more seriously. However, it’s also clear that he wants to help David keep his job. In fact, he even calls David at home several days later and tells him that the Rector is prepared to let him retain his position if he issues a public apology—an apology that Mathabane has presumably written himself on David’s behalf. Despite this gesture, though, David declines to issue this statement, prompting Mathabane to say, “David, I can’t go on protecting you from yourself.” Not long after this conversation, David is asked to resign from the university.