TUT Staff Member Has Just Completed an Interesting Doctoral Study. The Student Representative Council (SRC) elections at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) took place online from 4 to 6 September 2023, and more than half of the students participated. There were seven ISRC seats up for grabs among six structures.
TUT Staff Member Has Just Completed an Interesting Doctoral Study
SRC elections for residential universities were the biggest in the country, says Dr Gugulethu Xaba, Director of SGLD (Student Governance and Leadership Development). During the announcement of the preliminary results on 6 September 2023, he said “the elections demonstrated the hard work and active participation of students.”
The turnout for the 2023 election was higher than the turnout for the two previous elections. There was a 53.9% voter turnout in 2018, compared with 53.2% in 2022.
Students at Ga-Rankuwa Campus who study financial management, said the elections allowed them to understand what leadership entails and what their roles are on campus. He said that political structures can only market themselves to students if they display their activism on campus.
Students are now able to exercise their constitutional right to vote, according to SAED Executive Director Dr Shadrack Nthangeni. As an enabling tool for free and fair elections, the University management responded by conducting classes online.
Thomas Thobile and Alan Campbell, both from KDBS Consulting, announced the preliminary results. In the institution’s results, EFFSC (Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command) took the lead.
As a result of the consolidated ISRC results, EFFSC was ranked first with 14 206 votes and allocated four seats. SCO had 374 votes in total, earning one seat, while SASCO received 9 542 votes, gaining two seats.