University of Fort Hare SRC Elections

Simo Cele

The Democratic Alliance Students Organisation (DASO)  had an historic win at the University of Forte Hare in October 2015.

And as the SRC elections are near the corner, both student movements are hoping to gain trust from the students in order to obtain a victory.

The institution is currently under the leadership of DASO’s Busisiwe Mashiqa while the East London campus has SASCO’s  Malakhiwe Mbambo as the premier.

Mbambo says SASCO has learnt from it’s past mistakes and as such trying to rebuild and reform itself in the institution.

"We have been working hard, assisting students because I believe the only way students can gain trust is through assisting them in all aspects, academically,financially, on the issues of residence and other issues and problems students are facing in our university."

Meanwhile, SRC President Busisiwe Mashiqa also expressed her trust and faith in the students and how DASO, has well structured itself within the institution.

"We are very confident about the elections. One because at the end of the day it’s the students who can judge how we did in the current term, which is from last year until now. But we believe that we did our absolute best in terms of delivering services to students and being visible and transparent to students about issues, but the only people who can judge us as an organisation are the students who voted for us."

With Forte being the first predominantly black university taken over by the Democratic Alliance, the elections taking place on the 21st of April are highly anticipated by both student organisations.