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Last month panel of Rhodes management, including Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Dr Mabizela), the Dean of Student’s office as well as the SRC sat to decide on the presence of election campaign poster on campus. Thapelo Tselapedi, Vice president External of the SRC says that the executive committe of the SRC had decided that they would oppose decision taken by management to ban election campaign posters on campus. However when they executive committee took their decision to council, they were defeated. Management had already decided that posters should be banned, stating that they felt that there is a manner in which a university must represent itself and that the presence of election campaign posters would be harmful to the aesthetics of the university.
The SRC in opposing this decision taken by management states that Rhodes is a public instutution and should not isolate itself from society.
A decision was then taken by managemnt and the SRC to allow political parties to put up poster to advertise events on campus. Parties may use these events to put up election campaign posters around and inside the venue of the event, but only on the day of the event and for the duration of the event.
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