FACE TO FACE WITH PY

Status: Independent Individual Candidate

Who are you?
I’m Phiwayinkosi aka “PY” Makhathini. I’m a third year BSSc student.

Should you be elected, what do you hope to achieve at the end of your term?
To contributing immensely in building a student tolerant SRC which has a sole purpose of addressing student issues and grievances with great care and urgency.

What are your concerns about the outgoing SRC?

They did not include students in their decision making processes. They centralised decisions making, thus tended to go astray from their mandate.

What is one thing that you would like to change about SRC? How?

The continuous abuse of the resources that are meant to serve the interest of students. Through redistribution and accounting to students for resources used.

What two skills do you think a SRC member can not do without?

Excellent communication skills, which are helpful in everyday life and enable this office bearer to be able to communicate with students and management in order to address pressing student issues. A second skill is good listening skills. We need SRC members who can bring themselves to listening to the student masses, not someone who only wants to be heard but does not want to hear what other people are saying.

What is your message to fellow students?
Be independent and vote independently. Don’t let people make your vote theirs, your vote is your secret. Your vote is the first step in the process of transformation, accountability, transparency and excellent service delivery.