The shame of 40 000 missing education certificates

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Graduates are being left in the lurch by a higher education department that is simply unable to deliver the crucial certificates proving their qualifications - in some cases dating back to 1992

More than 40 000 higher education graduates have yet to receive their certificates — some years after they qualified. Engineers, artisans and business students are either unemployed, working at retail stores or about to lose the jobs they have found without their certificates.

This is a problem the higher education minister, Blade Nzimande, has failed to address since he took up his post more than 10 years ago. Yet former students such as Chuma Mfazwe, who is a qualified electrical engineer, cannot find a job. Mfazwe has a seasonal shop assistant job that will end in January after the festive season. She has not been able to find work as an electrical engineer because, four years after completing her studies atProspective employers reject her statement of results.

 

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psssst, pls tell mr anc to fix the education systems that they so deliberately and consciously broke....., but before lunchtime otherwise, nothing will be done, ne!!

Arrrgh guys I think we just gonna have to ask The Ramaphosa administration to step down or should we take it to the streets like our parents before us? GovernmentZA

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