The Durban University of Technology (DUT) Student Representative Council (SRC) Treasurer, Mr Asanda Mngomezulu believes that his courageous leadership to fulfil his vision for the SRC comes with passion not his position.
He is currently doing his Advanced Diploma in Information and Communication Technology: Application Development (ICT: App Dev).
Mngomezulu (22) believes that his passion for helping people pushed him to join DUT politics. “I have been working tirelessly, serving students while I was still an underground force that is why I believe that my courageous leadership to fulfil my vision in the SRC comes with passion not position,” said Mngomezulu.
His role as the DUT SRC Treasurer is to deal with all financial related student issues and also to back up all offices since he forms part of the Executive. As an SRC Executive member his responsibility is to assist in managing the day-to-day matters of the SRC, approving and amending the SRC budget, and assisting in important decision making under urgent circumstances.
Furthermore, his responsibility as an SRC Treasurer is to ensure the transparent, responsible, and sustainable managing of the SRC’s financial resources, to formulate and amend financial policies which assists in the aforementioned, to prepare and draft the SRC’s Budget, and finally to compile financial reports which illustrate the spending history of the SRC up until a point in time.
Sharing his ambitions for the SRC, Mngomezulu said: “ My ambitions for the SRC is to change the perception of the DUT populace that they have about the SRC. The DUT populace believes that the SRC always fights without engaging with the management. However, this is not the case, the SRC sits down with the management and engages on some important issues.”
Ever since he joined the SRC, Mngomezulu feels he always put students’ needs and interests before his own, even sometimes to his own detriment. In addition, he shared that he also faces challenges when it comes to balancing his SRC duties and his academics but he overcome all these issues by creating his own time management plan.
“My biggest wish is to have the SRC that has good working relationships, regardless of their campus locations and political history affiliations,” explained Mngomezulu.
Mngomezulu believes this SRC is brave enough to lead in a forefront without any influences from outside. “This is a unique SRC because we give ourselves enough time to engage until we champion issues, we also know the rules and vision of the institution which makes us unique,” explained Mngomezulu.
Pictured: Mr Asanda Mngomezulu, SRC Treasurer.
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