28/02/2019
EFFSC CPUT BELLVILLE CAMPUS STATEMENT ON NSFAS, ACCOMODATION AND CURRENT STATUS QOU.
February, 28 2019
Thursday
• EFFSC notes and welcomes the early release of NSFAS allowances for students who fall under NSFAS category whose applications for funding has been approved. We however note that not all our students who fall in NSFAS criteria eligibility are getting funds, some are rejected mostly on poor academic performance from previous years. We urge students to check and track their application status online, or visit financial aid office on campus to be tracked or alternatively the SRC offices. This will ensure that, those who are requested to appeal do so and in time. EFFSC has vowed to be the voice of the voiceless and be the necessary catalyst in speeding up the release of allowances to students. To students who are struggling to or want assistance with drafting their appeals to NSFAS are urged to report to SRC offices or SRC conference room 13h00 today till late as the fighters will assembly to help assist students and ensure they are funded. Students must remember we as EFFSC from the inception we have rejected NSFAS and have called for FREE EDUCATION for all, we however view this as a step towards the realisation of free education. We will not relent and we know it’s a government based decision hence we are even more motivated and we will ensure the EFF triumphs in the coming national elections. We have come to understand that only under the EFF government where we will have free education.
We do acknowledge that there were hiccups but again we have managed to provide leadership despite the loud hailers who oppose and contradict everything positive for the sake of narrow selfish political ends. The PASMA SASCO alliance (PASCO) has been nothing but great spectators who can only vilify the mighty EFFSC. We said it from the beginning that we will fight till the bitter end, students have entrusted us with their votes and we shall ensure we take care of all the ills and evils that become obstacles in their journey of academic excellence.
Lastly on NSFAS and food allowances we urge our students to spend their allowances wisely and with caution. We are busy finalising a program that will involve banks where we will host weekly seminars every Friday and invite banks to advise on financial plans, how to save and most importantly how to ensure you spend your money most effectively.
• ACCOMODATION remains a huge problem as we still have our students who are in dire need of accommodation sleeping in TV rooms. We strongly feel that the university is insensitive about the issue and to some extent its deliberate for selfish looting schemes. The housing business office is the most useless office in our institution as it’s the one entrusted with scouting out of potential buildings engage landlords and finalize the finer terms and conditions. It has dismally failed on its duties instead what we are noting is the vested interest in monopolising buildings to one owner. This is live corruption and it will be exposed and squashed for it does not only disadvantage students it exhibits what our institution has become. We note with disgust the attitude of the dean of students who confidently claims on media that students who are homeless are those who did not apply. This is untrue and we shall expose the inconsistencies of housing department as we have consistently assisted students coming outside the province who were accepted last year. Be it they applied or came in as walk ins accommodation is needed. We have been uncompromising and we can safely say we are on the verge of securing yet another building which we hope will put our housing crisis behind us. Housing is land, accommodation is land and this speaks directly to societal ills and therefore we must never isolate these issues. For those students in need of accommodation we have been consistent in assisting and ensuring they have a place to sleep and have access to ablution facilities. This does not in turn means the struggle is over we are consistent and radical in approach we will not rest until we see it done.
Lastly on accommodation students who have not written their names on the SRC list who need accommodation must visit the SRC offices or contact our LSRC res and transport rep to ensure we have their names. This might seems as a foetal exercise with no results but a necessary tool when engaging with university as numbers don’t lie.
• On current status quo we have managed to ensure the ancestors of PASCO who were academically excluded are brought back into the system and finish their studies for we believe our political differences don’t make us enemies and we believe education is service to Afrika, the doors of learning shall be open for all. We come from very evil times under the tenure of PASMA where it was an achievement to fight for exclusion of your political opponent from the system. We hope the PASCO brigades can learn one or two things from the set pacers that political arena must not be reduced to personal attacks. We wish all our students good and we will give all the support we can get to ensure students excel academically, students socialize for social cohesion purposes, which essentially means something exciting is coming soon. However we cannot have any of those until we have finalised the issue of accommodation.
• To our SRC continue in your radical approach we will criticize you when its necessary equally we will defend you from hyenas who want to ridicule and vilify your efforts. We still maintain our call which is total implementation of our manifesto. We call upon the SRC to always adhere to SRC constitution and respect their constitutional responsibility of convening mass meetings at least once in every quarter.
ISSUED BY ACTING MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER : Ayabulela Majavu ON BEHALF OF EFFSC BELLVILLE CAMPUS.
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