SKILLDUGGERY: The National Skills Fund, the missing R5bn and Blade Nzimande’s request for confidentiality

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Over the past two weeks, Parliament has heard details about the National Skills Fund, an entity meant to fund skills development initiatives. From missing money and confidential reports to bad financial statements, Daily Maverick unpacks the goings-on at the agency.

found that there was nothing stopping the report from being made public, which led to a letter to Nzimande stating that the committee would not adhere to his confidentiality request.On 29 September, Nzimande’s office said the department was “steadfast to deal with instances of maladministration and corruption at the National Skills Fund ”.

“This is the reason we requested Scopa to treat this report as confidential until these processes are finalised and the relevant people informed, in terms of due process,” he said in aIn a briefing on 20 October, the deputy minister of higher education, Buti Manamela, said that the ministry and the department had “no intention of trying to sweep the forensic report under the carpet”, according to theAt the meeting on 20 October at Scopa, the Hawks’ national head, Lieutenant-General Godfrey...

DA MP Chantel King, who sits on the committee and is the party’s spokesperson on higher education, has called for Nzimande to“It is clear that a central avenue for funding students must be created to administer all state funding for knowledge generation, training and skills development to ensure that that all applicants receive a fair bite of the apple and some do not unduly benefit by double dipping,” she said on 27 October.

 

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