REPORT BY CONVEX – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Vice Chancellor and Principal, Prof Chris Nhapo, Members of the Executive management, Academic and non-academic staff The President of the SRC, SRC members, and the entire student governance, Members of Convocation Executive Committee (CONVEX) The secretariat to convocation, Mr Majija and the registrar, Mr. Mokoena Members of convocation throughout the length and breadth of our country and elsewhere in the world, Ladies and gentlemen,
Allow me, on behalf of the leadership collective of CONVEX to convey our warmest greeting to you, the members of CPUT convocation. It gives me great pleasure to address you this morning to deliver our report as CONVEX, which details the activities and programmes that we implemented. Ladies and gentlemen, this report serves as a retrace of our footsteps since we assumed our term of office on 07 September 2019. Before I zero in into the activities and programmes that we have conducted, it would be remiss of me if I fail to highlight the constitutional provisions, which have enjoined us to convene this annual general meeting today.
In this regard, as you might well be aware, convocation is a creature of statutes, which is established in terms of section 68 of the CPUT statutes. In this context, the statutes further enjoin convocation to have its constitution, which delineates its objectives, powers and functions within purview of the governance framework provided for in the statutes.
To this end, we also converge here today to deliberate on the proposed constitutional amendments in terms of section 26 of the constitution of convocation. Previously, we have made concerted efforts to hold a special AGM in order to deliberate on the proposed amendment but we were unsuccessful in organising the special AGM owed to nuanced reasons. These reasons subsume among others, the low number of members who had sent their RSVPs to confirm their attendance and as well as the few members who have actually made proposals for constitutional amendment.