Ehlanzeni TVET students on strike
Just a week before exams are set to start, students of Ehlanzeni TVET College decided to embark on a strike.
Students from the various campuses marched to the college’s head office in Mbombela, to handover a memorandum of grievances. The list of demands includes issues of poor infrastructure, Nsfas allowances, misappropriation of funds and corruption by some administrative officers, shortage of staff and student support services.
The college’s SRC president, Mr Sphelele Malibe, said they will disrupt exam procedures if their demands are not met. “It has been three months since we last received our Nsfas allowances, and that has led some students to drop out. We are giving the management three days to respond.
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The chairperson of the college council, Mr Lucky Mbuyane, accepted the memorandum, and promised the students that their issues will be addressed. “If there is a need, lifestyle audits will have to be undertaken against all the alleged implicated officials. We will work with the management of the college to try and find solutions to the matters raised by the students,” he said.
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Mbuyane added that he has already issued an instruction for the payment of the outstanding student allowances.
The students alleged that the chief executive officer of the college, Mr Thabanga Dhlamini, is the main source of corruption at the institution. They have called for his immediate dismissal.
