{"id":5302,"date":"2019-08-28T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.lonelyviking.dev\/afriforum-youths-maties-branch-insists-scs-financial-term-reports\/"},"modified":"2019-08-28T20:01:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:01:51","slug":"afriforum-youths-maties-branch-insists-scs-financial-term-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/afriforum-youths-maties-branch-insists-scs-financial-term-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"AfriForum Youth\u2019s Maties branch insists on SC\u2019s financial and term reports  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AfriForum Youth\u2019s Maties branch sent an email to Stellenbosch University\u2019s (SU) student council on 12 August 2019 and again on 26 August 2019 in which the financial and term reports of the 2018\/2019 term are legally requested, as provided by the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No.\u00a02 of 2000).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This request was made after the previous term\u2019s reports had been scrutinised after reckless, pointless and questionable transactions took place. However, the student council failed to respond to either of the two emails.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u201cIn 2018, Stellenbosch University\u2019s student council spent their colossal budget, with a starting balance of over R2\u00a0million, almost exclusively on political propaganda. This, while students are told that bilingual education cannot be afforded, while students have to go without textbooks due to financial pressure and while students have to suspend their studies due to a lack of money. The SU student council is doing a great injustice to students,\u201d says Juandr\u00e9 de Bruyn, Chairperson of AfriForum Youth\u2019s Maties branch.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to an email sent to students by the student council on 13 August 2018, the following was budgeted for, among other things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White Privilege event \u2013 R3\u00a0950<\/li>\n<li>Israel Apartheid week \u2013 R3\u00a0000<\/li>\n<li>LesBiGay closing function \u2013 R6\u00a0500<\/li>\n<li>LGBTQI+ awareness \u2013 R9\u00a0000<\/li>\n<li>Womxn march &amp; movie screening \u2013 R3\u00a0650<\/li>\n<li>Womxn in Leadership brunch \u2013 R6\u00a0500<\/li>\n<li>Womxn movie and panel discussion \u2013 R7\u00a0200<\/li>\n<li>Womxn opening and closing function \u2013 R11\u00a0700<\/li>\n<li>Womxn poetry \u2013 R4\u00a0400.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The total amounts for different portfolios are as follows: Womxn Empowerment \u2013 R36\u00a0800, transformation \u2013 R36\u00a0000 and Consciousness &amp; Sexuality \u2013 R41\u00a0450.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is completely unacceptable that students, especially those who have been denied bursaries for identity politics, have to fork out thousands of rands every year to fund propaganda aimed against them. This senselessness practice is taking place while only R6\u00a0000 was spent on translation services and only R8\u00a0000 on first aid training. We as AfriForum Youth at Maties would like to see that this money is spent on real student needs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>AfriForum Youth therefore insists on the latest reports to ensure that student fees are used for the right reasons. AfriForum Youth also requests that more money be spent on security, aid funds, bursaries and the promotion of mother tongue education. Furthermore, AfriForum Youth requests that all money budgeted for propaganda that excludes the majority of students be cut to reduce study costs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFinances should be used to give as many students as possible access to education, instead of funding the political agenda of certain leadership figures on campus.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfriForum Youth\u2019s Maties branch sent an email to Stellenbosch University\u2019s (SU) student council on 12 August 2019 and again on 26 August 2019 in which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465,464],"tags":[829,830,831,832],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-statements","category-perfervid","tag-financial-reports","tag-maties-branch","tag-stellenbosch-university","tag-student-council"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":465,"label":"Media statements"},{"value":464,"label":"Perfervid"}],"post_tag":[{"value":829,"label":"financial reports"},{"value":830,"label":"Maties branch"},{"value":831,"label":"Stellenbosch University"},{"value":832,"label":"student council"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum Jeug","author_link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/author\/afriforum-jeug\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":465,"name":"Media statements","slug":"media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":465,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":222,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":465,"category_count":222,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Media statements","category_nicename":"media-statements","category_parent":0},{"term_id":464,"name":"Perfervid","slug":"perfervid","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":464,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":153,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":464,"category_count":153,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Perfervid","category_nicename":"perfervid","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":829,"name":"financial reports","slug":"financial-reports","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":829,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":830,"name":"Maties branch","slug":"maties-branch","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":830,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":831,"name":"Stellenbosch University","slug":"stellenbosch-university","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":831,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":832,"name":"student council","slug":"student-council","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":832,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}