Violence mars Wits SRC elections

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Violence erupted during SRC elections at Wits University and some people are alleged to have been assaulted in the chaos.
One of them was so baldy injured that he had to be taken to hospital.

One video that was posted on Twitter shows an injured man on the ground with a lady over him attending to his injuries.


The man's is lying on his back and his head is resting on a makeshift pillow. He is bleeding from the mouth, barefoot and his shoes are next to him.
The person recording the incident can be heard accusing EFF members of having beaten the guy.

In another tweet, @mfazomyama writes: "Never would have thought I’d be at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital at this hour accompanying a comrade that was almost butchered to death by the Wits EFF."

On the other hand Wits EFF also posted a video of someone in an EFF shirt lying on the ground they claim was assaulted by the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA). The PYA is made up of the South African Students’ Congress Organisation (Sasco), ANC Youth League, Young Communist League and high school representative body Congress of South African Students (Cosas).

Buhle Zuma, Senior Communications Officer said voting in the SRC general election started on Tuesday and would closes at 8pm on Wednesday.

She confirmed that that violent incidents have been reported and that may be in violation of the SRC Election Code of Conduct, which was adopted by all candidates.

"The SRC Electoral Team together with Campus Protection Services are investigating these incidents. All incidents should be reported to Campus Protection Services immediately," Zuma said.

The EFF Students Command (EFFSC) National President Peter Keetse accused the South African Students Congress (Sasco) of having provoked them by removing their posters on campus and in additon to that one of their members was beaten.

“What we are aware of is that there was an altercation between EFF and Sasco members at Wits. We noticed that our elections posters were being removed. We then discovered that it was Sasco supporters who were removing them. On of our members was beaten,” he said.

However, the Progressive Youth Alliance Coordinator Cebolenkosi Khumalo said the EFF started had the ‘fight’.

“All elections have rues. The rule was that all those that are campaigning should use A2 posters not A1 because it is big. The EFF used the A1 posters. The EFF had removed some of our posters. Yesterday [Tuesday] we went out to put some of our posters and we found them waiting for us.

“Then there was an argument. One guy who was recording everything was approached by an girl from EFF who took his phone. The guy demanded his phone and in between he was beaten and he became unconscious. The incident happened at 3am. He is at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital,” Khumalo said.
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https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/violence-mars-wits-src-elections-17523595
 
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The EFF Students Command (EFFSC) National President Peter Keetse accused the South African Students Congress (Sasco) of having provoked them by removing their posters on campus and in additon to that one of their members was beaten.

Wats daai ding van klomp triggered skreeuende aapies? :unsure:

I demund higher education
I demund no higher refinement of my person

:rolleyes:
 
Finally remembered to check election results: http://www.cput.ac.za/src-elections but they seem to only post them on FB...
Actually found someone I know from the IT department. That person's an idiot.

EFF won my campus, mostly because those were the only people voting. Love how SASCO has half the votes of the EFF party.

Total number of votes: 8663. Total number of students: At least 32 000 (2010). Also think everyone does more votes than people, since you can vote multiple candidates. At best 1 in 4 voted.
https://www.facebook.com/cput.ac.za/photos/pcb.2086585871372597/2086585524705965/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/cput.ac.za/photos/pcb.2079521548745696/2079518025412715/?type=3&theater
Wellington campus even has people winning by default due to no votes/competitors. In all of the winning cases there, everyone is running independent.

These SRC elections are useless and don't represent the student body.

I should have taken a photo of all the EFF posters. They literally just plastered poster after poster at the entrances, think along the lines of about 25 meters, double rows, blocking out sunlight.
If it's still there Monday, I'll take a picture. No other political party came close to the amount of advertising/people walking around with regalia getting people to vote.

Sorry if off-topic, but I understand why they took down the posters which caused the fight, EFF just went complete overboard.
 
What benefits does being on the SRC confer?

I paid little to no attention to such things when I was at varsity.
 
Neoprod said:
What benefits does being on the SRC confer?

I paid little to no attention to such things when I was at varsity.
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First step into politics, free ed, budget to abuse a little, bit of travelling, etc.
 
This happened way back when I was at varisty as well. ANCYL students broke into the hall where the votes were being counted and stole some of the votes.

The morons took the boxes that was counted already, so when the same morons called for a recount after the results were made public - they couldn't do it. :)
 
GhostSixFour said:
This happened way back when I was at varisty as well. ANCYL students broke into the hall where the votes were being counted and stole some of the votes.

The morons took the boxes that was counted already, so when the same morons called for a recount after the results were made public - they couldn't do it. :)
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Who was winning?
 
Oh, dear. This is worrying, just when the students are coming to terms with the #feesmustfall trauma.
 
The_MAC said:
They should put an end to all the SRC's, they add no value at all..
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Of course they don't add value to you, but they are very helpful to those who they are meant for, they helped my niece a lot when NSFAS was giving her a runaround regarding her tuition payments, something that can take you months to sort out will be done in a couple of phone calls from the SRC office, they do have their flaws of course.
 
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