d) Student Representative Council Mr O Matshidiso: President led the presentation which highlighted the following key issues: . Accommodation: The university had a serious challenge of shortage of accommodation for students. Of the 10 000 registered students in Mafikeng Campus, only 2100 could be accommodated. Access for disabled students to the residence remained a serious concern. A former residence for students (Giona Park) was converted into accommodation for lecturers. Majority of the rooms in the residences were under maintenance making the shortage to be worse. Students wanted NSFAS to pay for off-campus residences because university residences cannot accommodate all students. . Language policy: In Potchefstroom Campus, Afrikaans was used as the medium of instruction and majority of black students were disadvantaged because of this. Student orientation was also conducted in Afrikaans. . Death of a fellow student: Students were concerned with the manner in which management handled the case of a student who drowned in a swimming pool last year. Justice was not served in this case and there were no clear indications of the circumstances which led the student to drown. The SRC proposed that the matter be re-investigated. . Transformation: There was no clear programme of transformation to unite the university. Although the university had a transformation document, it was not implemented. There was no transparency in fee allocation per campus. . Fee increment: Students were extremely concerned with the fee increment of 10.3% and proposed that fee increment should not be above the current inflation rate which was 7%. . Victimisation: There was notion of vicitimsation of SRC leaders by management of the university. A former president of the SRC was denied an opportunity to graduate owing to administration error in his results. . Student debt: Students were being excluded owing to inability to repay the money owed to the university. Students were forced to sign loan agreement forms before they were allocated funds from NSFAS. Some students in the university owed more than R100 000 in outstanding debts and majority of these students came from disadvantaged families. The SRC proposed that the university surplus be used to write off the student debt.