Manifesto
for Secretary General
[The
beacon of hope for integrity, justice and dedication in the student leadership]
PRODUCTIVITY,
PROGRESS AND TRANSPARENCY
As the SRC Secretary General,
I would ensure that the council strive to be productive in their engagements,
Progress and Transparency.
Productivity:
Hold each council member accountable by having weekly meeting with them to find
out what challenges, obstacles they are facing so that I can offer my support.
(Portfolio Assessment)
Progress:
Each and every term councillors will submit their termly report alongside with
their monthly reports. I would be publishing the minutes of each council
meeting within the 9 days and that would assist the student body at large to
assist the SRC in assessing the progress of the SRC. Working with the media
councillor for the website update and making use of social media in supplement
to the mailing system that we shall seek to improve even further.
Transparency:
I will liaise with the Media Councillor in improving our communication skills
making sure that all the minutes, events and projects, challenges that the SRC
face will be communicated to the student body. When it comes to official
communications to the student body, through the secretariat official
communications will be issued in and the media councillor will further
advertise the event or a meeting but the official communication will be sent
out from the office of Secretary General and if needs be, the Registrar’s
office will be given the communication to distribute on our behalf because this
has been the challenge this year.
Ø Unity:
As the engine of the council I believe that we need to uplift the team spirt
within council, so that we can unite and pull into one direction.
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Drawing from my past experience as SBS
having to work with other councillors on projects; have assisted in building my
interpersonal skills, which I will use to foster the spirit of unity amongst
councillors.
Ø Hands-on:
As Secretary General I will make sure that I am hands-on on the daily activities
of the council. By being hands-on, it will assist me in noting all the events
that are planned. To avoid having clashes/overlaps on events.
Ø SG’s
role is beyond the administration. I will be co-ordinating the availability of
councillors, to ensure that at all times there is a councillor that is in the
office. Administrative skill is vital to all of the SRC members for the
improvement of bookkeeping and follow-up on important issues, therefore I will
ensure that workshops are given to emancipate the higher level of
administration for every office bearer for the council of 2019.
How?
Evidently, the SRC
institution has started what one can refer to as transformation, the process of
transformation because it has started to attract candidates from different
demographics that are found in this community with different views, cultures,
beliefs, economic levels, races, with different interests and historical and
social backgrounds of which all of that makes them who they individually are. Research
on organisations suggests that in building a strong working team accommodating
individual differences remains essential. Candidates run for the SRC for
specific portfolios that obviously suit them but SRC most of the time works
together as a team and makes decisions collectively. When the Social Identity
Theory is taken into consideration, one can see how easy it can be that people
form small and usually informal groups within the organisation (Note, SRC is a
typical example of what I refer to as an organisation) according to
commonalities each person finds from other members of the organisation e.g.
social background and or gender. The important point in all of this is that the
success of the organisation depends on the ability of the organisation to
manage those individual differences that can either make for example an
individual isolated from the rest of other members or having many groups in the
organisation that oppose each other. Now the Secretary General of SRC as an
example of an organisation it is fundamental to have good skills to manage
diversity in the organisation because the Secretary General of SRC is there to
support each member of the SRC or any group in the SRC be it an informal group
or working group/task teams that is usually a formal group for the improved
overall performance of the SRC institution. I am personally reach in
interpersonal skills and with a confidence in my character and conduct. I am
embodying strong working ethics and approachable. I am a hard worker in nature
and full of passion and creativity. I am currently a student leader for
Community Engagement and I believe that the trainings offered for us by RUCE
have moulded me to this dedicated leader that values the input of each
individual from the group. I am also currently the Deputy Secretary of Young
Men’s Guild in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa for Circuit 1302 of
Clarckbury District and I really hope that I have developed many essential
skills such as listening and taking the minutes of the meeting. The issue of
managing diversity in the SRC institution will be easy to deal with as I am
someone who since understand that there is no only one way of explaining
peoples’ behaviours. This makes me employ a simply positive psychology in the
day-to-day running of the SRC and interactions that the SRC has for the
improvement of SRC’s performance as that proves to motivate a positive attitude
of each member to their job. Making sure that there is inclusion in the
decision making of the organisation for the sake of productivity and
effectiveness, I will utilize Booysen’s ‘Systematic Model for Management of
Diversity’ which suggests seven steps on how to manage diversity but for sure,
that is a theory that one can indulge from just to guide themselves so
practically, will ensure that the operational model of the SRC accommodates
even the practices, preferences, beliefs, views and efforts of even the
minority group that can be found in the SRC and to make sure that everyone’s
values are accepted, valued and promoted through the council’s operational
model that council can draw for its term of office as I am also confident that
a constitution that is on review now will be in line with a most desired
student governance on the campus. I will make sure that these groups that might
exist within the SRC (both formal and informal) as informed by the group
identity theory carry the equal weight in all decision making processes and I
will do that by remaining a mediator by all times as someone who embodies the
secretariat of the SRC. I will never choose sides if the groups develop because
that compromises the integrity of the Secretary General’s office which
concentrates on the functioning of the SRC. In improving the effectiveness if
the SRC as an organisation, it becomes easy to obtain any goal that the SRC has
and for that I believe there will be less to know incidences where the student
body will complain for a “structural violence” in the hand of the SRC”
A
Fight against a persistent gender-based violence and gender inequality
As I am contesting a
position of leadership as a male student I hold a view that we must not deprive
women their ownership to their struggles. I like doing observations and
research on things before trying to play my own role into things. I think it is
time now that national networks that fight stereotypes among manhood start in
the institutions of higher learning. I believe that as women, particularly
students are fighting crime that is aimed at them, it is time that men also set
the foot on how we can develop a relevant or rather a positive masculinity that
does not embody the cause of fear and oppression to women. We can form
partnership with existing organisations that I know that they were formed to
fight for men’s rights that are now shifting to working on a positive
masculinity. For example, Young Men’s Guild (YMG) of the Methodist Church of
Southern Africa (MCSA) is now partnering with SISONKE GENDER JUSTICE NETWORK to
fight against gender-based violence across South Africa. Its time now that we take
a close look into these organisations like YMG that was formed to unite the men
during the industrial revolution for Christ than now looks into the broader
societal issues. My office would like to assist in making this the first step
that men can embark to as to play a part in fighting this persistent monster of
behaviours.
Thank you for reading,
please vote for me.
General MVENGENYA
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