Statement by the Election Convenor: Stellenbosch University Student Representative Council (SRC)
Outcome of the SRC Chairperson election
On the evening of 22
February 2017, during the SRC chairperson election, a situation arose in
which I made a bona fide error and misinformed those present as to the required
number of votes to win the election.
After postponing
the election and reflecting on a student court judgement where a similar
situation had occurred some years ago, I realised the error I had made.
I
accordingly informed the SRC of my mistake. I indicated an initial
intention to declare Ms Nomzamo Ntombela as the new SRC chairperson but then
rescinded this intention in order to take more time to consider the options
available to me.
To aid
myself in coming to a decision I convened a meeting between
myself, Mr Romek Sadowski (the other candidate in the election), Ms Tonia
Overmeyer, Dean of Students and Director of the Centre for Student Leadership and Structures, and Prof
Sonia Human, Dean of the Faculty of Law. Ms Ntombela was invited but declined
to attend this meeting.
After considering all
the options available to me, and after consulting the relevant experts, I
have decided to retrospectively declare Ms Ntombela the winner of the election
and thus the new SRc chairperson. I would like to congratulate Ms Ntombela and
wish her well with her tenure as chair.
Kind regards
Dylan Swigelaar
ELECTION CONVENOR STEMBUSKONVENOR
Universiteit Stellenbosch University
srcelection@sun.ac.za