Malema to bolster EFF’s TUT SRC campaign with three speeches

25 August 2015 - 13:49 By RDM News Wire

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema will lend his weight to his party’s student wing’s campaign ahead of Student Representative Council elections at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). Malema is scheduled to make three speeches on Wednesday – the first at TUT’s West Main Campus‚ followed by addresses at the Garankuwa and Soshanguve campuses.These announcement of the TUT appearances comes a day after the EFF said it would take the University of the Witswatersrand to court to reverse its decision to suspend some of its members as students and disqualify them from participating in Student Representative Council (SRC) elections.The Wits EFF student society has also been “de-recognised” by the university following the disruption of an SRC election debate on August 18.The latter decision was reversed on Monday after the EFF’s “national leadership confirmed that the EFF had never said that it would operate outside the rules of the university and if any individual had said that‚ they would have been acting in their individual capacity”.Wits‚ however‚ would not accede to the EFF’s demands that it withdraw “the disqualification from the SRC elections of members of the Wits EFF who had contravened the Electoral Code of Conduct”; and withdraw “the suspension of individuals who were involved in violence and/or threats of violence from the university and its activities”...

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