This article criticizes the legacy of Dr. Blade Nzimande as former Minister of Higher Education and Training, highlighting his ineptitude, mismanagement, and failure to address corruption within the tertiary sector.
When the story of education in 2024 goes down, the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act will dominate. However, what must not be forgotten is the ineptitude and mismanagement of the higher education terrain that will be glossed over in the airy-fairy mind of former Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Blade Nzimande . Nzimande will vainly suggest that poverty and inequality have been adequately addressed through his failed patronage politics within the higher education system.
Yet Nzimande has never accounted for the many underlying challenges in higher education. South Africa glosses over the thousands of unemployed graduates and the high failure rate within universities and Technical and Vocational Educational Training colleges. Worse, the ongoing corruption in all spheres of the tertiary sector that has gone unpunished under Nzimande’s watch, especially the mess left behind at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), the rotten National Skills Fund, and some of the Sector Education Training Authorities, which have put greed before skills, is disgraceful. His inaction should not be forgotten. If one tracks the SETA landscape from 2009 until now, Nzimande removed competent SETA Boards and CEOs and deployed his chosen merry band of SA Communist Party cadres who lacked the most basic sectoral knowledge, let alone good governance attributes. At one point – every Seta Board was headed by an obscure communist deployed at the Board Chair and CEO level. This was to allow the SACP to have a self-enrichment feeding scheme. Perhaps that is why it can finally afford to contest elections rather than remain an ANC Gucci handbag
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