Motion of No Confidence in UFS SRC President Lindokuhle Ntuli 2

On Monday 22 February 2016 a group of staff members protested because of their working circumstances. The SRC President decided to let a group of students protest on various busy spots on campus. There was NO reason whatsoever for any student to get involved in what was the staff's problems. The president should have applied himself to his own business because even though it might not have started out as a racial or political protest, it surely ended up opening old wounds at this university as one could have predicted. Moreover, the SRC President, who led the student protest did not see to it that violence would not be used - look at the amount and degree of violence that ended up emerging from the situation. Furthermore he stood and looked upon irresponsible students vandalising university property - hostels in which students regardless of race should live in while studying; class rooms where students should get taught to the best of their ability; grounds which students should should move on and be proud of. The physical damage will need to be fixed. Will he be funding the repair of the grounds, hostels and classrooms? No he will not, but it will be funded by means of the tuition fees of hardworking, willing students. When taking into consideration the amount of physical, emotional, psychological and politial damage done in this past week under leaership of the SRC President, I do not think he is capable or deserving of the position in which he is in. And the people that decided to join in on his whims should also b punished, for they are clearly not here to study and mind their own business but to practice destructive politics.

I signed this petition because as a first year at University I expected to have a good leader and this SRC President is not showing good leadership by leading this protest.I do not have tolerance for racism and for me as a coloured student I don't know where I stand in this situation going on on campus and i feel very unsafe

Reading students comments on social media stating Prof Jansen is not approachable is stripped of all truth. As a student I have received numerous invitations to meet with him, as have all those who state they did not. How many such invitations have I ever received from the SRC leader who was voted in to represent me as a student? I feel strongly that he has been misinterpreting his role as Student leader by being a political puppet. It is the empty vessels that make the most noise. In times like these we as students need a "vessels" filled with integrity, a person that values education and time on task for all students regardless of their colour, language or religion. It is with this in mind that I feel that my current SRC leader lacks the discernment to lead. We deserve better.

Lindokuhle Ntuli is being used for political motives much bigger than campus, and in the process causing polarization and unnccesary tension. 

If he is truly worried about some legitimate concerns, his energy should have been focussed on finding positive solutions and encouraging progress in non violent ways that takes most of the student body with him on the journey. 

His actions and "leadership" has caused students being used by the leaders of the protest to get hurt, arrested and unneccesary costs will now cause more financial strain on the University and result in even worse conditions for poor students. 

Lindokuhle has also failed to acknowledge the real cause of many of the problems on campus, namely, DHET and Blade Nzimande. Instead he has confined his angerbto the university and its students. Probably he doesnt want to jeopordise his chances to a career in maladministration and misgovernance