{"id":5220,"date":"2019-10-08T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.lonelyviking.dev\/deception-division-and-the-estrangement-of-puk-students\/"},"modified":"2019-10-08T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T12:03:08","slug":"deception-division-and-the-estrangement-of-puk-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/deception-division-and-the-estrangement-of-puk-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Deception, division and the estrangement of Puk students"},"content":{"rendered":"

AfriForum Youth condemns the video message of Prof.\u00a0Fika Janse van Rensburg, Deputy Vice-chancellor of the North-West University\u2019s (NWU\u2019s) Potchefstroom Campus, that was posted on Facebook on 22\u00a0January\u00a02018.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

This video addresses two issues, namely the University\u2019s language policy, and, according to him, that first-year students feel their individualism and freedom of association are being violated. The NWU management did, in response to this, prohibit hostels from wearing any hostel wear between 8:00 and 17:00 during the registration and orientation programme (R&O programme).<\/p>\n

\u201cParents dropped off their children at the Puk with an easy mind, because they were deceived by Prof.\u00a0Fika and the NWU management into believing that their children will be studying at the Puk with its rich student life and unique campus culture. It is currently most definitely not the case,\u201d says Ohann Fourie, AfriForum Youth\u2019s National Coordinator for Campus Structures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Afrikaans speaking students were asked to adjourn a meeting which Prof.\u00a0Dan Kgwadi, Vice-chancellor of the NWU, had with a certain group of students in the Sanlam Auditorium on the Puk campus, after which he spoke only with the non-Afrikaans speaking students.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t these types of actions particularly create division that lead to the estrangement of a certain group of students? The greater majority of the group first-years that were asked to adjourn, said they were satisfied with the course of the R&O programme,\u201d says Fourie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AfriForum Youth is of the opinion that the R&O programme worked and achieved success in the past regarding the promotion of unity among students. It is also during this time that students get the first taste of this Puk culture. The same culture described by Prof.\u00a0Fika in his video as being only an existing culture.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Integration means we must learn from each other\u2019, was Prof.\u00a0Fika\u2019s words in the video, but why is more attention paid to the opinions of individuals than that of the majority of the first-years at the Puk? The decisions being enforced currently, however, contradict what Prof.\u00a0Fika says in his video,\u201d concludes Fourie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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