. The University of Zululand is one of six comprehensive universities in South Africa and is strategically situated in the Durban-Richards Bay Corridor. Like all South African universities, the University of Zululand is expected to have an ongoing deliberate transformation agenda that examines practices and philosophies that underpin its core business, intellectual projects and other scholarly activities. Its vision and mission is to be a leading rural-based university and a comprehensive university providing quality education. . The Vice-Chancellor of the university was appointed on 01 February 2010. On her arrival at the university, she discovered that the university did not have a permanent Student Representative Council (SRC), a matter of serious concern. An SRC Caretaking Team consisting of two staff members was appointed as an administrator of the SRC. Political tensions are said to be the major contributor to the collapse of the SRC at the university. Management of the university has met with students and discussed the issue resulting in the setting of a possible date for the next SRC elections.