MINISTER MOOSA WILL ADDRESS SA UNIVERSITIES SRC'S

Issued by: The Ministry for Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development

The Minister for provincial Affairs and Consititutional Development Valli Moosa will be addressing the Fourth Annual Congress of the South African Universities SRC's. This conference - a yearly gathering of all South Africa's University Student Representative Council takes place at a time when voter registration goes into its second round. It also takes place at a time when tertiary institutions are faced with challenges over tertiary education funding.

The minister is expected to address the issue of the role of the student governing bodies and the general student population in the run up to the 1999 elections. The minister will also use this opportunity to address and field questions on a wide variety of issues including:

• The funding of political parties for the 1999 elections.
• Students as the custodians of the values of the constitutions.
• The role of Universities and other institutions of higher learning in a growing Democracy and in Civic Education.

Under the spotlight at the conference will be a variety of issues mainly on how to consolidate students unity in the country given the new challenges of student governance brought about the new dispensation.

The congress will take place at WITS UNIVERSITY, FNB BUILDING, COMMERCE FACULTY, WEST CAMPUS, 12 YORK ROAD JOHANNESBURG at 10H00 on Sunday 31 JANUARY 1999.

For more information please contact ONKGOPOTSE J.J. TABANE at 082 465 6166.

Issued by the Public Relations Officer Ministry for Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development Friday 29 January 1999