{"id":7541,"date":"2018-10-19T14:45:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T12:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=7541"},"modified":"2018-10-19T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T12:45:20","slug":"eff-ousted-wits-src-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2018\/10\/19\/eff-ousted-wits-src-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF ousted in Wits SRC vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of the Witwatersrand had their SRC elections this week and while mostly peaceful\u201a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2018-10-18-student-injured-in-wits-src-election-brawl-discharged-from-hospital\/\">violent incidents<\/a>\u00a0did occur on campus. A\u00a0member of the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) had to be hospitalised after he was attacked by\u00a0Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) members. Stories vary as to the reason for the attack that left the man unconscious. Videos showing students tearing campaign posters\u201a and assaulting and swearing at each other have also made the rounds.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/2018\/10\/student-news-wrap-06-10-18\/\">sweeping wins around the country<\/a>\u00a0including UJ this month, the EFFSC lost its hold at Wits, managing only one seat this year. The PYA, which comprises the ANC Youth\u00a0League\u201a the South African Students Congress (Sasco)\u201a the Young Communist League (YCL) and the Muslim Students\u2019Association (MSA) took the remaining 12 seats.\u00a0The institution also noted that\u00a0more students had\u00a0participated in this year&#8217;s elections than before.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#x1f5f3;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WitsSRCElections?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WitsSRCElections<\/a>: Result Statistics <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dZnDK1lS3Z\">pic.twitter.com\/dZnDK1lS3Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wits University (@WitsUniversity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WitsUniversity\/status\/1052899020803321857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 Read more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2018-10-18-progressive-youth-alliance-beats-eff-in-src-poll-at-wits\/\">Times Live<\/a> site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of the Witwatersrand had their SRC elections this week and while mostly peaceful\u201a\u00a0violent incidents\u00a0did occur on campus. A\u00a0member of the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) had to be hospitalised after he was attacked by\u00a0Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) members. Stories vary as to the reason for the attack that left the man unconscious. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[16,28,123,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}