Rhodes University has agreed to allow Agang SA to advertise and campaign on campus, despite the political party having missed the deadline for registering as a society for 2014.
Rhodes University has agreed to allow Agang SA to advertise and campaign on campus, despite the political party having missed the deadline for registering as a society for 2014.
Dr Colleen Vassiliou, Acting Deputy Dean of Students said, however, that all posters and flyers needed to be approved at the Dean of Students Office and that the party would need to abide by Rhodes' Policy on Political Activity on Campus.
"We welcome healthy debate and political party campaigning and my office will be organising a pre-election debate session," she said.
Rhodes encouraged vigorous information sharing, discussion and political awareness, said Vassilou.
She said the university would invite all parties to send a representative to a planning meeting and would schedule the debate for the week prior to elections.
The decision to allow Agang SA to advertise and campaign on campus was welcomed by local Agang SA activist, Jock McConnachie, also the party's national spokesman and policy convener.
A total of 29 parties will contest the national elections on 7 May, four fewer than the 33 parties which had provisionally indicated their intention to contest, said the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).
This is the highest number of political parties to contest an election in South Africa's history.
An abbreviated list of candidates will be published on the IEC website (www.elections.org.za) but for security reasons this will not include supporting documentation or ID numbers.
The comprehensive list of candidates will, however, be available for inspection at the IEC head office in Centurion during office hours (8am to 5pm) on Friday 28 March, Monday 31 March and Tuesday 1 April.
A revised set of ballot paper examples for the national and provincial elections is available on the IEC's website.
