As most universities commence with their classes today, several student representative councils (SRCs) are racing against time to use funds they have raised to help students with historic debt to register.
Dozens of University of Pretoria (UP) students have been sleeping outside the institution’s residence offices since Thursday night due to not having enough funds to pay for on-campus and off-campus private accommodation.
Lerato Ndlovu is first black female chair of SRC at Tuks
By Sakhile Ndlazi
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Pretoria - Students at the University of Pretoria have a new role model: the first black female chair of the Student Representative Council (SRC), Lerato Ndlovu.
While there may have been a perception that Tuks favoured white men in leadership positions, Ndlovu has broken through the barriers to take up this role at a crucial time in the university’s history.
During the SRC elections in October, Ndlovu emerged victorious over two other candidates, including Rameeza Abdool-Sattar, who will now serve as her deputy.
Ndlovu, who hails from Luka, a village in Rustenburg in North West – is a final-year Political Science student and the outgoing deputy secretary of the previous SRC.