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Meet the new UFS Bloemfontein Campus SRC for the 2020/2021 term

31 March 2021 | Story Xolisa Mnukwa

The University of the Free State (UFS) Bloemfontein Campus conducted its first digital Campus Student Representative Council (CSCR) elections for the 2020/2021 SRC term. Elections for the 12 ex officio portfolios were conducted from 1 to 4 December 2020, while the elections for the 7 elective portfolios were conducted from 23 to 26 March 2021.

Of the 22 941 eligible voters for the elective portfolios, 8 044 cast their votes, which accounts for 35% of the voter’s roll. The 2021 voter turnout is an increase of 9,53% compared to the 2019 elections that were conducted manually. The CSRC incumbents mentioned below were officially inaugurated on 29 March 2021 and an official handover of the outgoing to the incoming incumbents was facilitated by the Student Governance Office.

The results below depict the final outcome of the CSRC elective portfolios. Elections were concluded at 21:00 on 26 March 2021. Watch video for the official inauguration.

Position	Candidate	Votes
PRESIDENT	Jerry Thoka	5 747 (74,6%)
Kamohelo Seleke	1 960 (25.4%)
DEPUTY PRESIDENT	Loretta Mosito	5 563 (72,4%)
Esona Yapi	2 116 (27,6%)
SECRETARY	Ayanda Dlova	5 988 (78,3%)
Simphiwe Zonke	1 660 (21,7%)
TREASURER	Orefile Sefika	5 425 (70,7%)
Thandiwe Kula	2 246 (29,3%)
POLICY AND TRANSFORMATION	Vusumzi Gqalane	4 988 (63,8%)
Thabo Duma	1 649 (21,1%)
Nompumelelo Khoza	1 178 (15,1%)
STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS	Tshiamo Sebolai	4 681 (60,4%)
Fhumulani Sididzha	1 707 (22,0%)
Ofentse Ntsane	1 365 (17,6%)
COMMUTER STUDENTS	Dimpho Mokhoantle	4 469 (58,1%)
Marumo Rakwata	1 643 (21,4%)
Lusanda Feleza	1 582 (20,6%)

The results below depict the outcome of the ex officio elections that took place from 1 to 4 December 2020:

Position	Candidate
ASSOCIATIONS STUDENT COUNCIL	Michael Mnguni
STUDENT ORGANISATIONS COUNCIL	Tebogo Sako
ACADEMIC STUDENT COUNCIL	Katlego Booysen
DAY RESIDENCE COUNCIL	Sibongiseni Mncela
CAMPUS RESIDENCE COUNCIL	Mpho Maubane
POSTGRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL	Nico Janse van Rensburg
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COUNCIL	Rufaro Chakanyuka
STUDENT MEDIA AND DIALOGUE COUNCIL	Wandile Manqele
UNIVERSAL ACCESS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE COUNCIL	Katlego Sekele
CIVIC AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY COUNCIL	Gert Terblanche
ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL	Katleho Khaola
SPORTS COUNCIL	Bongumusa Khumalo

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UFS presents unique rally

2005-06-07

On Friday 10 June 2005, the University of the Free State (UFS) will present the Kovsie version of the Amazing Race in Bloemfontein.

The Amazing Rainbow Rally will be held in aid of children and babies with serious diseases in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

By raising the necessary funds, equipment can be acquired to meet the unique health care needs of these special patients. It will also enable the UFS to maintain the high standards of education, training and research in this field.

The Amazing Rainbow Rally will give some residents of Bloemfontein an opportunity to test their knowledge of the city, as well as their time management skills, communication skills, team work and even their relationships!

About 12 corporate teams from among others Vodacom, Eskom, Medi-Clinic, Mimosa Mall and Nedbank and four university teams must follow a specific route with various checkpoints by car. Here they will have to complete activities or solve clues before receiving their clue to the next checkpoint. Teams will be traveling with cars branded with the logo of the company they represent.

The rally will start at 09:00 at the Rooiplein of the UFS and will again end on the campus where they will complete the last task. The first team to complete this task is the winner of Bloemfontein’s first Amazing Rainbow Rally.

OFM’s breakfast team will do live crossings on the day to reveal how teams are doing.

The Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at the UFS serves children with special needs, in other words children who need intensive care, or who suffer from cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and conditions, endocrinological diseases or gastro-enterological conditions.

The Department provides secondary health care to more than 250 000 children in the southern parts of the Free State, but is responsible for the tertiary care of about a million children in the Free State and Northern Cape, as well as some parts of the North-West province, the Eastern Cape and Lesotho. The intensive care units at Universitas and Pelonomi Hospitals serve approximately 1 300 neonatal and 350 intensive care patients annually. The pediatric cardiology unit admits almost 300 high care heart patients per year. Approximately 13 000 out-patients visit these two hospitals every year.

MEDIA RELEASE

Issued by:  Lacea Loader
   Media Representative
   Tel: (051) 401-2584
   Cell: 083 645 2454
   E-mail: loaderl.stg@mail.uovs.ac.za

7 June 2005

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