17/08/2025
Revolutionary greetings are extended to the entire student body of the University of Zululand
EFFYC Statement on SRC Elections and the Inconsistency in Adhering to the SRC Constitution!
"Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories" - Amilcar Cabral
SRC Elections & The EFFYC Response
The EFFYC categorically rejects, without fear of contradiction, the contents communicated in the SRC memo released on Friday, 15 August, as nothing but lies and hogwash, resulting from bogus arrangements and a desperate attempt by the Sasko-led SRC to save face and cling to power amidst worsening student conditions.
LIES:
- Majority View: Elections should remain online and be held in December ❌
- Minority View: Elections should revert to manual and be held in September-October ❌
- SRC Resolved on holding a Student Body Meeting ❌
FACTS:
- Majority View: Stressed adherence to the SRC Constitution, which states that SRC elections must be held in the second semester, in the 3rd term, between September and October ✅
- Minority View (Sasko View): Disregard the SRC Constitution, continuing as normal with SRC elections held in December after all students have been evicted from campus ✅
- EFFYC Proposed that a Student Body Meeting must be held and has already collected over 1,500 signatures through a petition to discuss and decide through a referendum whether SRC elections should be manual or online and whether deviation from the SRC Constitution should continue with elections held in December or adherence emphasized, resulting in them being held in September-October ✅
These are the results of discussions held on 15th July through the Office of the Registrar. We further emphasize that a Student Body Meeting is the only correct body and platform where this decision can be taken and sufficiently exhausted. Students must decide in their majority, after robust discussion, how and when they must vote. This Student Body Meeting shall give mandate and direction to a seemingly clueless SRC.
The current position of the SRC, and by extension Sasko, is simply nothing but a hollow attempt to cling to power through a potentially rigged system that discourages genuine participation by the student body in deciding who must lead them.
Our position, simply put, is clear and straightforward: dissolve the useless Sasko Led SRC. Students must take back their power: amend the obviously outdated and useless SRC Constitution and bring back the Unizulu Student Parliament!!!
EFFYC Unizulu Branch
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