AfriForum Youth gets outright majority on UP SRC;
Charl Oberholzer elected as SRC president
In 2011 AfriForum Youth will have an outright majority on the Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Pretoria (UP). The national deputy chairperson of AfriForum Youth, Charl Oberholzer, was also today elected as SRC president for 2011.
The election took place yesterday during the constituent meeting of the newly elected student parliament. At the meeting it also had to be decided which members of the student parliament would serve on the SRC in 2011. The meeting lasted 12 hours. Opposition parties at the UP succeeded in forming a broad coalition in order to prevent SASCO from gaining control of student structures at the university.
Because AfriForum Youth won the recent student parliament election at the UP by 1 762 votes, AfriForum Youth played a leading role in the coalition. Student organisations that formed part of the coalition were AfriForum Youth, DA, Cope, FF+, Genesis and UPI (UP international students).
The newly elected presidency of the RSC for 2011 is as follows: