Matie poster inappropriate

AfriForum Youth strongly condemns the depictions of Nazi posters that were put up on the Stellenbosch Campus of the University of Stellenbosch (US) on 9 May 2017.

Race trumps merit: AfriForum Youth starts study fund to help students

AfriForum Youth founded a Maties alumni study fund in cooperation with Solidarity Helping Hand to allow current and future students of the University of Stellenbosch (US) to study with the help of alumni donations. Students who would be assisted by the fund will be selected on merits only.  

AfriForum Youth condemns transport of students to Maties

AfriForum Youth made an urgent appeal to the management of the University of Stellenbosch (US) to immediately act against individuals that were transported to the campus per bus in order to protest yesterday.

AfriForum Youth SRC candidature lawfully restored

The Student Court of Appeal of the University of Stellenbosch (US) on 9 September 2016 delivered verdict concerning the appeal of the eight AfriForum Youth candidates who are contesting the election of the Student Representative Council (SRC).

A Knapsack tour in the footsteps of the Rebels

A Knapsack tour in the footsteps of the Rebels

It was the Afrikaner’s darkest hour when the diehards of the Anglo Boer War locked horns twelve years later: On the one side the government forces (Kakies) of Prime Minister Louis Botha and his Minister of Defence, Jan Smuts – and on the other, the rebellion commandoes of General Koos de la Rey and Commandant Generals Christiaan de Wet and Christiaan Beyers. Only a few months later, all was over. The end was bitterer than that of 1902.

• Koos de la Rey
• Christiaan de Wet
• Jan Kemp
• Jopie Fourie
• Manie Maritz

How does such a tragedy strike?
Who were the role players?
How does one look back on it after a century?

Pack your knapsack and tour the Kalahari in the footsteps of Generals Kemp and Maritz with AfriForum Youth

Date: 1–9 October 2016
Costs: Free
RSVP: Send your name, surname, cell number and campus name before or on 15 September 2016 to marike@afriforum.co.za.

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• 2 500 km
• Six destinations
• Nine days of fun and adventure
• Learn more about your culture
• Learn more about your history
• Learn more about your heritage
• Learn more about yourself

SRC candidates appeal against student court order

Eight AfriForum Youth SRC candidates today filed an appeal against a decision of the student court of the University of Stellenbosch (US). The order directed that no student council elections may take place at the US until the university provided AfriForum’s candidates with reasons for their disqualification from the student council elections and until they had an opportunity to appeal against it.

AfriForum Youth approaches High Court after US excludes students from SRC elections

AfriForum Youth will bring an urgent application before the High Court in Cape Town tomorrow to compel the University of Stellenbosch (US) to reinstate the candidature of eight candidates for the Student Representative Council (SRC).

Maties SRC election

Why must I participate in the student council elections?

A competent student council (SRC):

1. Communicates with students and is aware of the latest developments;
2. Addresses complaints received from students;
3. Avoids political coaxing and does what is really in the interests of students;
4. Prevents a small group of anarchists from speaking on behalf of all students;
5. Takes the opinions of students into consideration during decision making and does not rely on their own opinion only;
6. Doesn’t allow itself to be dictated by management;
7. Attempts to keep the students happy, not management;
8. Speaks on your behalf at the council and senate;
9. Doesn’t hesitate to approach the courts in order to protect the rights of students.

Vote for a student council (SRC) if you are fed up with:

1. Violence on campus;
2. A small group of anarchists that apparently speaks on your behalf;
3. An SRC that doesn’t listen to students;
4. An SRC that doesn’t take any action with regards to the complaints of students;
5. An SRC that takes decisions without considering the opinions of students;
6. An SRC that only attempts to keep political parties happy;
7. An SRC that is more interested in keeping management happy rather than students;
8. An SRC that doesn’t act on behalf of students, but rather allows itself to be dictated by management;
9. An SRC that is too scared and isolated to approach the courts if deemed necessary;
10. An SRC that gives way to intimidation.

Youngest news concerning the SRC election:

1. SRC candidates appeal against student court order
2. High Court stops SRC election without AfriForum candidates
3. AfriForum Youth approaches High Court after US excludes students from SRC elections

AfriForum Youth supports the following candidates:
 

Bernard Pieters MSc Geohidrologie 8th year

Thea Bester BSc Chemie en Polimeerwetenskappe 2nd year

Netanje van Niekerk BA Filosofie, Politiek en Ekonomie 2nd year

Ashwin Maloy BA Internasionale Studies 1st year

Rector of Maties assures AfriForum Youth of campus safety

The annual convocation meeting of the University of Stellenbosch (US), which takes place today, will progress peacefully according to Prof Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-chancellor of the US. In a letter to AfriForum Youth dated 15 January 2016, Prof De Villiers gave the assurance that individual as well as general campus safety will prevail at the US during the meeting. 

Rector thinks rules need not be followed

AfriForum Youth started identifying a pattern in Prof. Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch (US), of attempting to bypass official processes time and again. The latest act to confirm this is his decision to introduce English as the only language of communication at the US.

Setback for Afrikaans at Maties

AfriForum Youth took notice with great concern regarding the decision taken by the Council of the University of Stellenbosch (US) during its Board Meeting on 28 September to no longer protect Afrikaans as medium of instruction in the official language policy of the university and other documents.

Open Stellenbosch propaganda

Dear Stellenbosch student,

The recent video called Listen, loaded on social media by the group Open Stellenbosch, is nothing but cheap propaganda. I know some members of the public, and especially members of Open Stellenbosch, will not agree with my statement, but give me the opportunity to explain. 

AfriForum Youth expresses condolences re death of Prof Russel Botman

AfriForum Youth conveyed their sincere condolences to the loved-ones of Prof Russel Botman, Rector and Vice Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch, who unexpectedly passed away.