DASO information brochure - Democratic Alliance Eastern Cape

The DA Students Organisation (DASO) is the
student chapter of the DA Youth - a passionate,
DASO is constantly driving issues relevant to
vibrant movement of young people that support the
students. In the first half of 2010 alone, we worked
DA’s vision of an Open Opportunity Society for all.
with our mother organisation, the DA Youth, to
We are active on campuses across South Africa,
pioneer the following issues:
and draw on the DA’s principles of good governance
to bust corruption and run SRC’s effectively. As well
• Through our research, we uncovered that last
as dealing with campus issues, DASO promotes the
year, universities gave back over R40 million
DA’s vision to students through positive example
in unspent bursaries to the NSFAS.
and practical policy proposals.
a nationwide petition to increase the NSFAS
We ran
qualifying threshold so that working class families
Elect DASO onto the SRC and
we will bring the same qualities
of clean, efficient governance
to our university that the DA is
now renowned for in the award
winning Western Cape!
can also benefit from these unspent funds.
• We conducted protests across SA and handed
over a memorandum to the Parliamentary
Portfolio Committee for Finance to urge them
to scrap the VAT on textbooks. The committee
responded favourably and agreed to strongly
consider our proposal – all thanks to DASO!
Members donated blood across the
A new DASO branch at their first
Visiting places of safety for Child
country for our campaign in June
meeting
Protection week in May
Website
www.dayouth.org.za
Facebook
Democratic Alliance Youth
Twitter
http://twitter.com/DA_Youth
DA Youth Head Office
P.O Box 1475
Cape Town
8000
... in change.
... in tomorrow.
you can
make a difference.