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OUTA calls for resignation of Higher Education Minister, following damning report

By Ragheema Mclean Last week, the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) released an investigative report, accompanied by two leaked recordings, which claim that the Higher Education Minister, Blade Nzimande, the National Student Financial Aid (NSFAS) Board Chairperson, Ernest Khosa, as well as the South African Communist Party (SACP), received kickbacks. These kickbacks are related to the awarding of a lucrative tender to facilitate the direct NSFAS allowance payment system. The […]

9 January 2024

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Nzimande appoints task team to probe NSFAS, calls for inquiry into salaries of vice-chancellors

Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Blade Nzimande has appointed a Ministerial Committee of Inquiry to independently probe the business processes, systems and capacity of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). Nzimande made the announcement on Wednesday during a media briefing to update the nation on measures taken by the sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. He said the committee, which will be chaired by former vice-chancellor of Sol […]

9 July 2020

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Blade’s axing fuels calls for Zuma to go

President Jacob Zuma's sudden cabinet reshuffle was aimed at embarrassing SA Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande, the party said yesterday. Nzimande, the erstwhile minister of higher education and training, was the only member of the cabinet to get the chop. "There was no reshuffle. The intention was to remove Comrade Blade. "It is an attack on the SACP," said Solly Mapaila, the party's first deputy general secretary, An SA […]

18 October 2017

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Destruction at universities must stop – Nzimande

The ongoing destruction and intimidation by small groups at universities must stop, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said on Monday. He warned students that failure to complete the academic year on schedule would mean poverty for many who would not get their degrees. “At some universities there have been attempts to disrupt those who are at work,” he said at a summit on higher education, held in Kempton Park. “But […]

4 October 2016

higher education minister

OUTA calls for resignation of Higher Education Minister, following damning report

Nzimande appoints task team to probe NSFAS, calls for inquiry into salaries of vice-chancellors

Blade’s axing fuels calls for Zuma to go

Destruction at universities must stop – Nzimande

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