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15 October 2015 Volume 72: Issue 1 The Official Student Newspaper of the UFS @IRAWAPost

EDITION

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#Ghosting Vox Poppg. 4

Pukke reign over Kovsies netball

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Students and staff have shared different views on the effects of a single main medium. Picture: Eugene Segers

Tammy Fray@IRAWAPost

Language policy dilemma

The University of the Free State might adopt Eng-lish as the only medium of in-

struction, according to the Lindokuhle Ntuli, Student Representative Council (SRC) president. Ntuli views the change as one that can only act as a catalyst for the progres-sion of the institution and its students. The change will equip members of the student body with an ad-equate comprehension of the English language that will only serve to heighten their prospects for national and international employ-ment. Ntuli believes that in order for the university to remain current in a global village, adopting English is essential as a medium of in-

struction. When questioned on whether this move is to the detriment of the Af-rikaans language and its culture, Ntuli says the same can be argued for the other official languages and their respective cultural groups. He adds that it is not the responsibility of the institu-tion to preserve a culture, but rather the universities primary aim is to provide its students with a meaningful tertiary education. Students of the Bloemfon-tein campus have different views regarding the possi-ble changes to the current language policy. Prime of House Welwitschia, Jani Swart, had the following to say, “People need to shift away from this mentality of breaking things down in or-der to attain equality.” Swart feels that the change is not entirely in accordance with the values of the university and believes that the institu-

tion should aim to be differ-ent from other universities by focusing on the devel-opment of the other official languages.

It is not all the Afrikaans Home Language students that are against the possi-ble language policy change says first year Education (BEd) student, who prefers to remain anonymous. The student admitted that during the early stages of the poli-cy discussions that she was upset about the amendment to the language policy. The student initially disagreed with the process. “I realised that all the fuss was unnec-essary. Most of my modules are given in English al-

though there are Afrikaans interpreting services I have personally found them to be unhelpful, so I just do eve-rything in English anyway. It’s not an entirely bad idea to move from Afrikaans to English because English is used worldwide, however it is unfair to expect the students coming from Afri-kaans schools to adapt to the change without assis-tance from the university.” The student added that the foundation for the im-plementation of such poli-cies must be laid in primary and secondary school level before it can be adopted at tertiary level. The university has made preparations to issue out a referendum. It will be made available from 19 to 26 October. The referendum will ask students whether the language policy should have the necessary adapta-tions and changes.

“It’s been four years of hard work leading to where we are today; we have worked so hard that this win means a lot to us.”

News

News around the world

15 October 2015

Police Commissioner, Rhiya Phiyega, will face a Board of Inquiry over Marikana findings. The board will adress allega-tions charged towards the Comissioner.

-Times live

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South Africa’s ruling party announces deci-sion to withdraw from the International Crimi-nal Court. ANC stated that “powerful nations” trample human rights.

-The Star Online

21 packets of female genetelia were reported by the wife of a Danish businessman. The War-rant Officer revealed that the evidence had been marked with dates going back to 2010 (FS).

-Times live

American presidential candidate, Ben Carson, receives criticism after he made a racial remark that Muslims should not run for the presidency.

-The New York Times

Nico Rosberg has rued a campaign of which he states to have been fraught with bad luck after his failed hopes of winning the Formula One title in Russia.

-Sky Sports

Two police officers in Durban were stripped, shot and kidnapped by a man whom they were assigned to warrant an order to.

-Times live

The #ShoutYourAbor-tion campaign angers social media users. The hashtag began in the USA against proposed plans for federal funding on Planned Parenting.

-Eye Witness News

Six South African Universities have been

included in Times Higher Education World

University rankings. The University of Cape Town ranked highest in South

Africa in the top 200. -The Citizen

The NG Kerk opened its doors to their first ap-pointment of female priests. The church has also included member-ship of the LGBTQIA+ community.

-SABCNews

Transport Security Ad-ministration in Orlando, USA, defended the air-port’s security force af-ter the alleged discrimi-nation of a transgender woman.

-The New York Times

Know your SRC cabinet

Campus shuffles HMS

Erica Dibela@dibela_e

A decision has been reached by the university management to move Human Movement Science (HMS) according to Brenda Coetzee, Director of the Faculty of Humanities on the Bloemfontein main cam-pus. “Unfortunately there is no alternative for this course in the Humanities Faculty for 2016,” says Coetzee. The last intake for HMS was 2014 for 2015. Coetzee says “The HMS degree moved to faculty of Health Science and is now B. Biokinetics, we don’t offer this course in our faculty anymore.” Senior Lecturer in the Fac-ulty of Health Sciences, Dr Marlene Opperman, added, “Students who are already doing the degree are going to do their honours in 2018 lat-est and after that, there won’t be any student studying the degree in Humanities.’’ Even

though the degree moved to Health Science it has not been approved yet, so it will only start in 2017. “We are planning to have bachelors in coaching and development in the Humanities Faculty and it will also probably start in 2017, as it is not final yet,” says Dr Opperman. Students must have an APS of 34, with 60% in Mathemat-ics and 60% in Physical Sci-ence or Life Science. This will also include a selection pro-cess. Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Derik Coetzee says “This is not a decision taken by the university. It is some-thing that had to change in all universities in the country. In November the universities will get together to discuss this is-sue”. The APS credits for the Coaching and Development degree will be 32 and 60% in mathematics. Prof Coetzee added the course is market driven, thus the reason why it had to be moved.

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The F1L4C has been running an awareness cam-paign on anxiety, depression and

suicide. The campaign aims to raise awareness of suicide attempts amongst fellow stu-dents. “Between August and September 2014, there were 30 attempts and 4 success-ful ones on the (Bloem-fontein) campus” said Jani

#TooSoon to QuitSwart, who is a member of the F1L4C awareness campaign, #TooSoon.

Mpho Motaung, first year B.Sc. student, tried to commit suicide due to academic pres-sure and depression, “I tried talking to my house mates but I felt as if they were going to judge me, so I swallowed the

whole bottle of pills “says Motaung. She also shared that she was not aware of the free counselling services available for students. The F1L4C campaign reaches out to students and informs them about suicide attempts in numerous ways. “One of our stages in the campaign, is to reach all first years in residences by using the P3 mentor program and share info regarding men-tal illness merely to make students aware of counsel-ling and free services” says Swart.

Kananelo Khosi@IRAWAPost

During the #TooSoon march. From left: Nandi Bester, Ingrid Wentzel, Vaughan Hugo and Corlea Kloppers. Picture: Tango Twasa

Students show support through balloon launching and finger priint oaths. Picture: Tango Twasa

“... I felt as if they were going to judge me, so I swallowed the whole bot-tle of pills.”

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News 15 October 2015 3

‘Not a taxi service’Khanya Mali@Jellitotos

KG turns it downTammy Fray@IRAWAPost

Akasia Residence Prime, Alicia Oberholzer, has re-ceived complaints from the ladies in her residence concerning offences com-mitted by Kagiso (KG) residents. “I get complaints that they kuier (party) out-side and if the girls ask them to turn it down, they turn the music up louder.” Akasia first years, Calla Dempsey and Alex Giddy, shared that the main con-cern is the negative impact the noise has on their aca-demics. “It is disrespectful because they must under-stand that we live here. We sleep and study here. This is our only home, most of us have nowhere else to go whereas they live off cam-pus.” According to Giddy, noise is not the only prob-lem. The parking provision made for Kagiso residents is not satisfactory for the Kagiso students or the la-dies from Akasia. “They don’t have adequate park-ing so they park right in the road, escalating the dan-ger of a possible collision for those of us who drive around the corner of the residence.” Kagiso’s Prime and

myself have a very good relationship. It’s great hav-ing Kagiso here because some of the Akasia ladies have built friendships with the Kagiso residents. I just wish we could find a com-promise that benefits us all” says Oberholzer. Kagiso residence mem-ber Kopano Sepeng and Residence Committee (RC) Nicole Masalla believe that Kagiso has done everything they can to accommodate Akasia. “We don’t sing after 5 and we vacate the res at 10,”says Sepeng. Masalla believes that the fault lies not with Akasia but with the management of the resi-dences. “Dr Wahl doesn’t notify Akasia if we are host-ing an event. Due to this negligence our Predicate Day party was interrupted by security guards sent from Akasia,” says Masalla. When questioned about the issue of parking, Masal-la had the following to say; “Veritas and Kagiso initially shared a parking lot, howev-er some of the Veritas guys started reserving parking spaces making it impossi-ble for KG students to park there. We have been com-plaining about this for three years but to no avail.” Both residences urge the university to come forward with solutions.

Security guard on duty at the Sasol Library. Picture: Khanya Mali

The transportation service for off-campus students, initiated by the Protection Service

of the University of the Free State has been halted due to illegalities surround the initia-tive.According to Dan Alexan-der, acting Head of Protec-tion Services, the securities transporting the off-campus students to their respective homes were outside the line of their job descriptions. Alexander says, “We do not have the legal license as a university to transport stu-dents at the back of a bak-kie and that could have been

used against us should some-thing untoward happen.” Mmakatleho Roelane, a second year Communication Science student, says “After hearing that the transporta-tion service was stopped, I asked one of the Fidelity su-pervisors to take me home at 2 a.m. because I was scared to walk alone with one of my female friend. However, a su-pervisor from the Protection Services had questioned the fidelity supervisor with an ag-gressive tone saying that we are not a taxi service which I found offensive. The Fidelity supervisor, nonetheless, took us home.” Victor Sejane, Student Rep-resentative Council for Stu-dent Accessibility and Sup-port, says, “The university is in the process of finding suit-

able means for off-campus students at night for the up-coming exam sessions.” He adds that the university man-agement is aware that this is a problem both for the secu-rity workers and the students concerned. A decision will be reached regarding the matter. When questioned as to how the Protection Services discovered the illegalities sur-rounding the transportation of the off campus students Al-exander detailed that Jan du Preez, University of the Free State Head of Human Re-sources, brought this to the attention of his department. Alexander referred IRAWA Post to Lacea Loader (Di-rector: Communication and Brand Management) whose comment was not available at time of print.

The street where Akasia, Kagiso (KG) and Veritas are situated. Picture: Tango Twasa

Voxies 15 October 2015 5

#GHOSTING

“I’ve never done it, I feel it’s messed up because it leads to hurting one person’s feelings and wondering what they ever did wrong? I would never recommend it to anyone as nobody would want that to happen to them.”

Alex ErasmusB.Sc. Geology

Carmen JohnsonPsychology Hons.

If you sit your partner down, call them or sms them just to dump them, you are old school. These days people “ghost” you instead of telling you it is over, they disappear before they break-up with you.Have you ever been ghosted or have you ever ghosted someone?

“I have been ghosted by my friend, we were out and I was drunk. I was hurt, I felt like I had no wing man with me. I saw him the next day and apologized and told me the reason he did it and I felt sorry for him”.

“No, I have not and never been ghosted. People who do that are so mean”.

Tiffany FederB.Ed Education

Eza MabonaBA Corporate Marketing

“No never. It’s a bad thing re-ally, you have to give someone a proper goodbye so that you can be friends after”.

“Yes, I have been ghosted be-fore, it was not nice. I don’t know why she did it, she never gave me a chance to ask. I saw her after some time and we just said an awkward ‘hi.’”

“I have once ghosted someone which was my way of dumping him. It was be-cause of his clingy ways. He tried nu-merous times to contact me but I just ignored him, leading to the ghosting I stopped replying to his messages and communicating with him.”

“I ghosted on this guy when we I was in grade 9 and he was in grade 11. The reason why I ghosted him was because he was hot but then he had no brains. So I just decided let me just leave him the way he is. And I don’t feel guilty it.”

Dominique StraussB.Sc. Genetics & Biocemistry

Mmakatleho RoelaneBA Corporate and Marketing

“I’ve never done it, I feel it’s messed up because it leads to hurting one person’s feelings and wondering what they ever did wrong? I would never recommend it to anyone as nobody would want that to happen to them.”

Devina HarryB Com Marketing

“Yes, I have done it. Sometimes you just have to go. I know it’s not good but sometimes you don’t have time to hangout anymore”.

Johanco FaihstB.Sc Geology

Neo MachesaB Administration

“No, I’m not that heartless. I would never do that. Those who do it are terrible people, end of story”.

Heavy DBA Media Studies

“Yes, I have done it. I felt like telling her I didn’t love her any-more and that I will hurt her. We see each around campus and we just greet each other.”

“Yes I have, UFS has a way of making people disappear…and only seeing the person years later which is ice cold, if you know what I mean.”

Mikaeal HassanB.Sc. Social Work

Jordan KennedyBA Corporate Marketing

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Deputy Editor and News Editor - Khanya Mali

Sports Editor - Erica DibelaFeatures Editor - Kananelo

KhosiSub-Editor - Tsholofelo

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Leader - Candice Cele

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“When your ex-girlfriend is pregnant with your kid. Or when you wake up on Tues-day thinking it’s Monday.”

@pandadalegend

“You know it’s Macufe when long lost family members finally reach out and ask you how life and school is

going.”

@The_Mookzilla

The Macufe has left the province. But has it competely left students unharmed, bat-tered nor bruised. Be it hangover or empty pockets, #YouKnowMacufeIsOverWhen...

Opinion 15 October 2015 7

#TweetsandThoughts @IRAWAPost online

Broke with expensive talents

Tango TwasaEditor-in-Chief

“Skop, skiet en donnner” approach

“When you are able to drive around Bloem with enough

personal space to bath in because there are no more

traffic jams.”

@VeeSello

Khanya MaliDeputy Editor-in-Chief

Generation of Entitlement

Attention to the needs of students for a second home

October. The uni-versity’s New Year. New SRC, new hakkas, even re-newed

policies. To the commuter students who still don’t un-derstand campus culture, this is the time of the year where powers shift and numerous staff get big shoes to fill. The shoes I have to fit into are a pair of stilettos. The past three years, under the guid-ance of three strong women

has taught me many things about the university and the importance of Student Media. Each editor was able to find a path to lead the editorial staff and publish editions of the newspaper that continued to be the voice of the students, no matter what. Student voic-es should never be silenced. The greatest gift I can offer new readers, editorial and fu-ture editors of IRAWA Post is that the service we offer is not for the weak. There are no fan-cy trips over-seas. There are no pay cheques. There are no blazers, no thank you’s, not a lot of staff, no sick breaks, no

I am the best writer that ever was. We do, however, have late nights, swollen feet, we have been hospitality, anti-itis, night terrors, political propa-gandists, misinformed cri-tiques, grammar Nazis, photo Nazis, printing paper Nazis, general nutties, violent threats and on the occasional Mon-day, a cold can of the cheapest energy drink available. I wish you all the best with the rest of the academic year. I cannot make promises as to what you can expect in the next quarter of the Post. Spon-taneity is the greatest adven-ture. And I do love a surprise.

I am an avid rugby support-er and with the World Cup in full swing it would be an un-derstatement to not mention the dramatic highs and lows that we have witnessed in this year’s tournament. Be-fore I go on a tangent about

the game allow me to relate this to you, fellow student. This season in particular makes my stomach churn resulting from the pressures of submitting a plethora of assignments, dooms day (predicate day) and the five or seven days of judgement that being the set dates for your module exams. All these things somewhat batter our psyche to the extent that we outsource motivation to continue the quest of getting that paper. When conditions in our sup-posed safe havens go out of control, a long walk infested with fear that someone might mug you from Jac van Rhyn street in Universitas west or from Brandwag, where some street lights are not fully op-

erational to the study logs is of utmost importance. This is where the “skop, skiet en donner” mantra resonating in the Springbok camp comes to fore, in these unfavourable conditions where you are forced to always make an al-ternative. It is your future at stake after all. As we approach the end of yet another academic year having sustained the “ skop, skiet en donner” of this year or in other cases given life in its entirety the mantra. Let us “touch, pause and engage” with our books as if our lives depended on the looming ex-ams. Enjoy the two months of summer holidays and imbibe a lot of liquids, take it easy on the ones that dehydrate you.

In most recent news, the Minister of Higher Educa-tion, Dr Blade Nzimande is-sued specific guidelines for student housing at public universities. The aim is to improve the conditions of existing buildings and ex-pand accommodation provi-sion processes. A surprising statement was that South Africa didn’t previously have any policies on accommoda-tion at universities. Residing in suitable hous-ing, creating a conducive environment for learning and socializing can result in the improvement of student life overall. A matter that needs to be taken into account is

by Tsitsi Chigombe

how much the journey to-wards attaining a qualifica-tion at university leaves a hole in parent’s/guardian’s pockets, adding pressure on students. If government has raised the issue, my hopes are that they see it through rather than postponing on visible implementation. I hope the government gets to look into this issue first hand and deeply under-stand the significance of the process as a whole and how important it is for the overall betterment of tertiary educa-tion in South Africa. There is more to this than just paint-ing walls and fitting in new doors. Instead of plugging the holes in the dam, let's try to divert the river.

by K.P Mvelase

The Post-Apartheid Era has brought about many nega-tive issues one being the feeling

of entitlement to certain op-portunities without the nec-essary hard work. This feel-ing is unfortunately common amongst the young black youth such as the UFS stu-dents. Our generation is not ap-preciative of the fact that we are now permitted access into all state universities and attain degrees in contrast to the apartheid era. The UFS students complain about in-clusivity and how the minor-ity race has "privileges", but the last time I checked the SRC committee includes 99% blacks with the ex-of-ficio posts occupied by only two white individuals. The black students complain about the higher economic status of the white students, but I am yet to hear about the white students complain-ing about the black students and how majority are bur-sary holders regardless of academic achievement es-pecially the fortunate ANC

members’ children. I once asked my fellow classmate (who is part of an associa-tion) how apartheid affect-ed him as a student at the UFS in 2015. His response was that his parents were disadvantaged/poor due to apartheid and that he did not receive the same qual-ity education as he went to a model C school and not a private school, therefore his knowledge and intelligence at university level was in-hibited. The entire country is issued the same matric syllabus and teachers use the same materials to teach students. Would you not withdraw from a certain race if it at-tacked you for the sins com-mitted by the generation before you in an attempt to avoid the race card always being pulled out on you? The white race is also at fault. They do not attend events on campus when invited and are given the privilege of studying in their mother's language. This is unfair because us black stu-dents are put under some level of discomfort by study-ing in a foreign language – English.

“When you have three tests this week and exams two

weeks later”

@sp3x_li

“The Lambos have left Bloem. The students are safe

to drive their Golf cars.”

@LilithaBodlani

“For the next 10 days there will be no consumption of fancy foods and drinks for

Macufe has conqured.”

@The_Mookzilla

Sport 15 October 2015 8

Erica Dibela@IRAWAPost

UFS ladies team turns off Tenoff

“It’s been four years of hard work leading to where we are today; we have worked so hard that this win means a lot to us.”

The university’s ladies soccer team has criticised the amount of recognition they receive. The soccer coach, God-frey Tenoff, stated the la-dies team plays the high-est level of football in the Sasol League. Hangwani Koko, the captain of the soccer team, added the la-dies play in the top league but they are not known by their own fellow students. Koko believes playing in Sasol league better pre-pares them for the Var-sity Cup. Both Tenoff and Koko feel the ladies lack commitment. Tenoff also believes that it is not his job to earn the team rec-ognition. “For me recogni-tion will become apparent with more participation, more competitions and better performances in those competitions.” The soccer team had seven walkovers this year. Tenoff concluded, “I love my women’s team but they can be more than what they are currently. Some players deserve to be recognized but most don’t. They play the game on a part-time and recrea-tional basis. That under-mines the efforts of the re-ally passionate and really talented players who can take the game itself some-where for the varsity.”

Kovsies’ netball captain, Karla Mostert, catches her breath in the defeating match. Picture: Wayne Brown

Pukke ends Kovsies winning streakJillian Rambudzai@jillian_shava

The Kovsie Net-ball team lost to a resolute and com-posed North West Univerity (Pukke)

netball side in the Varsity Netball Cup for the first time in this season. The Kovsies Netball team tried their best but could not defeat Pukke as they lost 48-56 on their home ground. Karla Mostert, captain of the UFS side believes the Pukke side capitalised on their mistakes they made. “We are very disappointed in ourselves even though we have played unbeaten all the other games. We

conceived so many mistakes compared to the Pukke side which makes them deserv-ing winners,” says Mostert.

Nerves were running high from both teams as they fought for the sole ticket to make it into the finals. The first quarter was a tight race. The last five minutes of the first quarter Pukke managed to lead the match by 10-8. The second quarter the Pukke side pounced on Ko-vsies defence giving them

more armour to strengthen their lead before halftime making it 28-19. Dorette Badenhost, coach of the Pukke ladies netball team, was in tears. She could not believe they had just made it to the finals. “It’s been four years of hard work leading to where we are today. We have worked so hard that this win means a lot to us. We prepared thoroughly which lead to this win, helped by the great team spirit the players showed on and off the field,” says Badenhost. Captain of the Pukke team, Izanna Muller, con-gratulated her teammates for the way they had played. “I am so proud of all the teammates they played ex-

tremely well which led us to win against a tough side like Kovsies. Coming to the game we knew we had to be positive and not worry that we would be playing the defending champions,” said Muller. The player of the match

was Renske Stoltz from the Pukke side. “I am over-whelmed by the fact we won and also because I was awarded the player of the match. I thank my team for the great game we dis-played tonight,” says Stoltz.

“We are very disappointed in ourselves even though we have played unbeaten all the other games.”