A WARM WELCOME TO THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

 

By Chumile Mafrika

Twitter: @mafrika_chumile

Email: chumilemafrika@gamil.com

 

The Tshwane University of Technology hosted an open day for first-year students on 13 March 2024. The event was to welcome and celebrate the first-year students.

The event was strictly for first-year students to have fun and enjoy the activities that were available for them. The main thing was to develop the students outside the classroom with all the organizations that were supporting the event such as health and wellness, sports and recreation and life and recreation.

         TUT student with Higher health organisation

                 Students playing different games

 In student affairs and extra-curricular development, we have 5 directories sports and recreation, extra-curricular development, student governance and leadership development, residence life and catering and health and wellness and a very important program called PA educators.” sad Siyabonga Ntamo the public relation officer for student affairs and extra-curricular development.

 Many students don’t drop out of university because they don’t have the intellectual capacity, they drop out of university due to the social pressure and complications that come with the transition from high school to university. You find out that they are not well equipped to deal with the challenges that come up being in university. Student affairs teach students the necessary skills to be able to cope with university life and end their academics very well.

The health and wellness played a huge role as it helps students with lots and lots of things such as condomizing and HIV testing. As we know, sometimes people are not the same, other people are ashamed of coming forward to express their health conditions. So, the health and wellness program helps students with such matters.

 The program was a huge success as gave courage to the students to believe and accept that help is always there when you come across conditions where you are ashamed about them.

“What we have today is a first thing first campaign, partners are invited for students to take part in the services the partners are offering with regards to health and wellness we have HIV testing, and if you want to be initiated on prep and psychosocial support,” said Kgabonare Makgalane a registered councillor from High health.