The merging of the two Technikons into the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) has challenged the management, students and staff at all levels of the institution. Staff members had to engage with the many complicated issues involved in bringing two complex organisations together. However, it can be attributed that the merger process has somehow increased the capacity of the university to respond to various needs of the economy. It is however, not yet possible at this point in time to declare the success or failure of the merger process since it is still in its early stages. In general, the university is committed to transformation and has set very good initiatives in response to the Ministerial Committee Report. The committee remained extremely concerned with the throughput rate of the university including the national average of 22% annually and requested for a follow up with the department on this issue at a later stage.