Livity Africa’s VIP Campaign, a youth politics platform that found success engaging young people in Joburg and Cape Town with the national elections in 2014, is now expanding to the Eastern Cape in the lead up to the 2016 local government elections.
The VIP Campaign is a non-partisan movement of young people – stationed inside parliament and on the ground – looking to take over the political agenda in order to push for youth-influenced change on key issues. As part of the mission, the campaign is extending to the Eastern Cape and zoning in on student-funding body, NSFAS. Is NSFAS meeting its mandate of heightening access to high education? Are young people in the Eastern Cape serviced well by the funding body? The aim is to get the voices of young people in the Eastern Cape province to become a part of the conversation on how to fix NSFAS before taking their issues to parliament.
We will be stationed in the Eastern Cape from 07 – 11 September 2015 and from 10 – 11 September we will run two VIP Debate Club events at the University of Fort Hare (Alice Campus) discussing the truths, myths and lies surrounding tertiary education and NSFAS; before discussing ways to make sure the student-funding program works for You(th).
Debate details: Date: Thursday 10 September 2015
Time: 16:00 to 18:00
Venue: University of Fort Hare (Alice Campus) King William’s Town Rd, Alice Eastern Cape
Discussion on ways to make NSFAS work
Date: Friday 11 September 2015
Time: 15:00 to 17:00
Venue: University of Fort Hare (Alice Campus) King William’s Town Rd, Alice Eastern Cape
Register: - It’s free to attend, but go to the website to register and to find more details on the campaign.
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