The elections are set for November 28.
In an urgent chamber application filed at the High Court,
the students through their lawyer Obey Shava said the decision to hijack
electoral processes by UZ authorities should be declared null and void.
The students revealed that they had also been barred from
contesting the elections and wanted their candidature reinstated.
They claim that the cause of action arose on November 22
when the elections commission announced that their nomination was invalid.
“Despite complying with the set guidelines as appears on
the notice from the dean of students above and also complying with the
requisite constitutional requirements, all the applicants were not declared
duly nominated and as such we were disqualified to stand in the 28th November
elections,” the students submitted.
“We are not privy to why our nomination was declined and
for that reason, we requested, through a letter, the reasons for the
disqualification and to the time of this application we have not been furnished
with the reasons thereof.
“Absence of reasons for the invalidation of our nominations
points to the fact that the decision arrived at was capricious, malicious and
merely vindictive. It was baseless and unlawful.” Standard
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