POSTPONEMENT OF SRC ELECTIONS I have been hearing rumours about the proposal of the ANCYL of postponing SRC elections this year to be held next year. I hoped that after confirming the rationale behind this proposal I will get a clear sense and comprehension around this matter. With all due respect, I found no sounding reasoning behind this proposal but only dirty political games and ego. Firstly, the current SRC constitution which was used to put the incumbent SRC in office states it very clearly under duties of the CSRC that the CSRC has a responsibility to call an Institutional Congress or Student Annual General Meeting where students will be in attendance to discuss policies of the University and do constitutional amendments where it is due. Our beloved ANCYL led CSRC out of no tangible reasons, have decided not to comply with the constitutional obligation of reporting back to students and granting students a platform to discuss their wellbeing and give them mandate as students representatives. If really the issue here is the incompetency of the constitution, then why the CSRC have not work toward it amendment when they still had time in their term of office?...just because their term is lapsing in no time from now they want to extend it and remain in office hiding behind the loopholes of the constitution. Secondly, my beloved ANCYL has went further to propagate a louse political reason behind this all shenanigans saying their purpose is to rally students behind the united UKZN PYA (SASCO, YCLSA and ANCYL) in trying to strengthen SRC fighting capacity. If really that was the case, then the SRC elections has nothing to do with the disunity of PYA. We have to remember that it is not only PYA components (SASCO, ANCYL and YCLSA) which contest SRC elections, then why other students organization like SCF, NASMO etc…have to suffer for something they have no interest on. If they really willing to unite PYA, then they must call those structures concerned and discuss their issues aside not to compromise and deprive students their choice of electing people to leader them. Moreover, the last set PYA meeting did not discuss the issue of postponement of elections while sorting it differences. It is such elements again which further perpetuate PYA divisions when a certain organization just take a decision on its own without consulting other two concern parties and expect that they will just buy into their determination. The Student Development and Leadership Governance department under Dr Chaluf, called a meeting of all political organization to discuss the issue of constitutional amendments. That meeting overwhelmingly resolved in saying that all the constitutional drafts documents available must be sent to all clubs and societies leadership on the 29th of September 2014 when we come back from the vacation so to give student leadership and students at large a chance to go through the documents and submit their informed proposal to the SRC and SDLG offices but even today we have not receive those documents. That meeting further added that the must be a task team being appointed with all organizations represented to deal strictly with the constitutional amendment, off course working hand-in-hand with the incoming SRC and SDLG department and those resolutions had never affected the constitutional obligation of SRC elections. A proposal made to allow the council to appoint the SRC interim or Task team over staging SRC election is nothing other than coward ness and individualism. This in an indication that the ANCYL care less about students, it a pity that most of the ANCYL fallen hero and heroines who died fighting for people’s right to vote are no longer here to witness how we appreciate their effort in return. Allowing a Council to decide on student leadership implying that those people will not be accountable to students but to the University management as people who appointed them. This proposal of task team is a strategy to reinstate the current CSRC in office since it is only the CSRC president S’thabiso and his Secretary Vuyo who seats in the council, meaning the Council only know them but it does not know some student who might be students’ choice to carry their mandate. This is a clear indication of a soft and romantic relationship between S’thabiso’s CSRC and the management, no wonder why he had guts to address the media in favour of the management during students protest. In conclusion, I think maybe it is vital that I remind students that up until this point, the university management have not come out clear in responses with regard to the grievances of the strike particularly the one of the registration closing date. Again, people who are seating in that task team is the same S’thabiso and Vuyo who are dismally failing to influence and catalyse the process of the date announcement. The university keeps on telling us that the is a task team in place working on the issue of sessional dates even today, so I want to caution students that having the same people who sleep in the same bed with the management in SRC will results in the dates being exactly what we fought against (6th February 2014) while we will not be able to fight it back since we won’t be having a legitimate SRC which is accountable to us. It should be a question we all puzzled ourselves about that how the university management would want to risk it principles stipulated on it statute and extend the term of office of the people who are vigorously challenging them in meetings?...We all love PYA and we all want the SRC constitution to be amended but those processes must not be driven by self-interests of the current leadership…..siphelile isikhathi bafethu….you must come back to ballots papers if you want to be SRCs again and allow us as students to decide through voting…..
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:43:00 +0000
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