Wits SRC launches funding initiative help students register for academic year
SRC president Nombulelo Chiya says the initiative plans to raise R15 million which the university will match making R30 million available for the cause.
Wits University's great hall. Picture: Twitter/ Supplied
JOHANNESBURG - Ten years after the “Fees Must Fall" movement at universities across the country, the student representative council at the Wits University in Braamfontein is launching a funding initiative to help students register for the academic year.
The Kubo Ya Thuto initiative will primarily serve students categorised under the so-called missing middle.
SRC president Nombulelo Chiya said the initiative planned to raise R15 million, which the university would match, making R30 million available for the cause.
"The fundraising campaign Kubo Ya Thuto SRC legacy fund doesn’t belong to me, neither does it belong to the SRC members, it belongs to the community itself. We cannot be able to raise what we aim to raise on our own but we have to work together with the community, public, corporate partners, private sector wits staff, academic staff, students, to be able to achieve a collective interest," said the Wits SRC president, Nombulelo Chiya.