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Place
2016
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Orientation programme was under the radar
• Done away with welcoming event in tent and presence of senior management
(e.g. VC and DVCs) (power display by SRC and senior students)
• Orientation programme embedded in academic programme
• Welcoming programme integrated in faculty programmes (not ideal)
• High student attendance rate, in spite of initial “disorientation”
2017/8
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Welcoming event moved to sport stadium
• Stadium in walking distance from campus, regulated entrance, welcoming
programme came about in a “safe and conducive space”
2017/8
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Welcoming banner at an entrance to welcome first year students
on campus
2018
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Eskom load shedding
, no sound systems during faculty orientations,
difficult to speak to large groups of students, some faculties wanted to cancel
their programmes