CPUT admin: *********** and playing with our children's lives

<p>Rashida Hoteli app**** at CPUT August 2016 for admission in 2017, however she never got a response with regards to her application till today. After several times looking on her online profile to see the status of her application (and there was nothing), she had to pack up and come to Cape Town from Queenstown so she could follow up on this. Again, after several visits to the administration office all of January and most of February, the only response she receieved from the administration workers was she must wait it has not been processed (and this is 5months later). As she was one of my students last year, I took it upon myself to take her to CPUT muself and follow up on this. With the help of Ayakha Magxotwa (SRC chair) who took us to the department in which my student app**** to, we found out that the application was never uploaded/put onto the system AT ALL by the admin department and that Theodore Messiah would be the person to contact with regrads to that. We then went to the administartion departemnt where I was told that her form was incomplete and that is PROBABLY why she has not received feedback in which I told that that nothing of that sort was communicated to her and if they could show me her application form so I could see what was incomplete and they could not do that. After a lot of back and forth and giving them proof that we had app**** in August, we were told, by Mr Messiah to re-aaply which we did but found very inconvenient as we now have no guarentees of the application being treated as an early application or walk in, also there is the posibility that there is now no space in the choices she wanted to get into (which she qualifies for with good marks at that ). In the mist of my fight with these admin people, I found out that two gentleman who were standing next to me had come with the same problem, also app**** in August, one of them having to come from somewhere overseas to sort this out because of the admin's ***********s. I realised that these people are really playing with our kids futures and that had I not been there, she would have been turned away once again as they have been doing for the passed month. </p> <p> </p> <p>On another matter with regards to another student I was assisting on the same day, he received an acceptance message from Ms. Van Wyke, in the Chemical Engineering Departement, however he could not open the link that was sent to him which is why we went to the department to ask for assistance only to find out that she had made a mistake and sent him the incorrect message and is in actual fact not accepted. The student in question, Ayabonga Mkhomasi did not go to work that day because he was so excited at the prospect of starting university and wanted to sort everything out, but only to find out that she had made a mistake. You do not make mistakes such as these, it really is unacceptable.</p> <p> </p> <p>CPUT management really needs to look into their staff, how they treat students as they help them during this time and especially to take everything seriously as these mistakes have great consequences. Both these incidences are intolerable!</p>