Nzimande overconfident in his department’s administrative capabilities AfriForum Youth today said Higher Education Minister Dr Blade Nzimande was overconfident in his department’s administrative capabilities, following his announcement today that applications for admission to universities could be centralised at his department from January 2013.
Media release: 8 January 2012
AfriForum Youth observed a wreath-laying ceremony in Pretoria today to honour the people who had died in the ANC’s terror attacks on civilians during the 1980s. The ceremony coincided with the ANC’s centenary and was held at the exact spot where the ANC detonated the so-called Church Street bomb on 20 May 1983. The vast majority of the victims were civilians. 19 people were killed and 114 injured.
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Media release: 23 December 2011
Parents and pupils are outraged about the way the University of Pretoria (UP) is hiding behind obfuscated admission processes in the Faculty of Veterinary Science, routinely coming up with excuses in order to bar white pupils from this faculty.
In the past month AfriForum Youth has requested the UP to disclose, in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (Act 2 of 2000), the academic performance of successful faculty applicants as well as the reasons why top pupils were being turned away. AfriForum Youth already represents 30 pupils, who between them hold some 190 distinctions. They were denied admission because of “poor academic performance”.
Media release: 1 December 2011
AfriForum Youth’s urgent court application against the University of Pretoria (UP) to have the results of the student parliament election released and the UP’s decision to hold a re-election overturned, has been slowed down after the UP submitted its court documents a week late, the youth organisation said today.
Media release: 23 November 2011
AfriForum Youth today passed a resolution during an executive committee meeting to establish a branch at the University of Stellenbosch (US) as soon as possible. This decision comes after several media reports regarding the pressure Afrikaans is under as a medium of instruction at the US.
“AfriForum Youth has received numerous requests from US students to set up a branch at the university and to add to the pressure on the university’s management to ensure a future for Afrikaans at the US,” said Charl Oberholzer, National Chairperson of AfriForum Youth.
Media release: 22 November 2011
AfriForum today submitted a request to the National Treasury and the Auditor-General (AG) of South Africa (AGSA) to investigate whether the National Youth Development Agency’s (NYDA) accounting officer is guilty of financial misconduct in terms of the Public Finance Management Act.
“Individuals within NYDA can now be held personally accountable for tax payers’ money that is being wasted,” Charl Oberholzer, AfriForum Youth’s National Chairman, said.
Media release: 21 November 2011
AfriForum Youth will step up its campaign for top pupils’ admission to the University of Pretoria (UP), after more than 20 prospective students, who jointly obtained 155 distinctions in matric, indicated that they are willing to take on the university regarding alleged double standards that are applied in the student selection process at the Faculty Veterinary Science.
All of these pupils’ applications for admission to the faculty were turned down on the basis that their academic performance was supposedly not good enough. AfriForum Youth today requested the UP on behalf of these pupils to supply reasons why each pupil was denied admission.
Media release: 8 November 2011
AfriForum Youth today asked the Minister of Higher Education, Dr Blade Nzimande, to intervene urgently about apparent injustice at the University of Pretoria (UP).
The youth group took this decision after another seven top matrics – who, between them, have about 50 distinctions – came forward, saying that they, too, had been turned away by this University’s Faculty of Veterinary Science for study next year on account of “poor academic performance”.
Media release: 2 November 2011
AfriForum Youth today submitted a request to the University of Pretoria (UP) in terms of the Access to Information Act, which compels the university to reveal the secret criteria for admitting students to the Faculty of Veterinary Science.
AfriForum Youth made the request on behalf of Tammy Haylock, whose daughter was refused access based on her academic performance. This was done even though she had seven distinctions in matric, gaining an average of 92% for Mathematics and 86% for Science.
