Perdeby Tuks se amptelike studentekoerant / Official Tuks student newspaper / Kuranta ya baithuti ya semmušo ya Tuks
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Official SRC election date finally set Beni Letebele, the facilitator for the constitution, said that there will be a meeting to explain the rules of the election process The Standing Committee of Council has on Wednesday which is open to all students. finally approved the Constitution for Student According to Letebele, these rules need to Governance and Student Representative be finalised by the Independent Monitoring Council (SRC) elections will take place on Board and the chief electoral commissioner 17 October. and will therefore only be made available The electoral committee will officially on Wednesday. He said that most of the announce the election date on Tuesday at clarification is an 13:00 in the Piazza. explanation of what This will mark the is contained in the launch of the election No campaigning is election process period. annexure of the Nominations will allowed to take place constitution. open on 2 September from the beginning of the The finalised draft and close on 16 of the constitution September after nomination period until the which was approved which nominated start of the election period. by the council, students must be without changes, confirmed as eligible. was compiled by a Official campaigning steering committee by candidates can after consultations only take place after with students. Individuals and societies were those candidates have been confirmed as allowed to make written submissions and in eligible. some cases verbal presentations regarding According to the constitution, no amendments or additions they thought were campaigning is allowed to take place from necessary. the beginning of the nomination period The constitution was brought under review until the start of the election period as last year but the process was suspended after announced by the director of student affairs. disagreements about proposed changes to However, pre-campaigning activities may the constitution. As a result SRC elections take place until nominations are opened. The were postponed and a Temporary Student constitution also states that: “From the start of the nominations period, no society activity Committee (TSC), which has been in that can be linked to promoting any candidate office this whole year, was set up in place of the SRC while the review process was will be permitted on campus. The approval completed. The TSC acts as a temporary of society events during the election period student governance structure with its will be at the discretion of the director [of] members nominated by the vice-chancellor. student affairs, in consultation with the chief TSC President Jordan Griffiths told electoral officer.” DANIELLE PETTERSON
Image: Nolwazi Bengu Perdeby that as a member of the steering committee he is very happy with the process that was followed. “I believe the [constitution] is something Tukkies can be proud of and that it will promote a different kind of student politics on campus,” he said. “Most students don’t realise but currently the TSC is running with only nine members in contrast to what is usually an 18 to 20 member SRC.... I am very proud of my team and the work that they have done and continue to do. Working with such a small team, it is very hard as we have a variety of duties and sit on many different structures in the university all [of] which take time and
can harm your academics.” When asked if he would run for the SRC Griffiths said, “This is my second year in student governance and my fourth in student politics. It’s time for me to move on.” The SRC elected on 17 October will serve from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014. Letebele told Perdeby that, “[The Department of Student Affairs] looks forward to a successful implementation of the new constitution and the new electoral process and want to encourage all students to participate as candidates and voters in the upcoming election.”