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Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela says South Africa must urgently adapt its education and training system to artificial intelligence, automation and digital transformation as the country confronts a “workforce-transition capacity problem” Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Manamela’s digital bet: Can SA’s higher education system survive the revolution under way?

Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela says South Africa must urgently adapt its education and training system to artificial intelligence, automation and digital transformation…

Services Seta administrator Lehlogonolo Masoga/

Seta overhaul: new project management unit to tackle stipend delays, certification backlogs and weak delivery

The Services Seta has launched a new PMU aimed at improving governance, accelerating programme delivery and addressing delays in learner certification and stipend payments, as…

Exhibition: The talent on display at SA Innovation Week 2026 is truly inspiring. Photo: Department of Science,Technology and Innovation SA

Why brilliant ideas aren’t enough

The country has the talent. It has ideas. It has institutions. What it needs is the connective tissue to turn potential into performance — and the patience to accept that…

Greg Solomon, Chief Executive Officer at McDonald’s South Africa and Marks Thibela, Chief Executive Officer at CATHSSETA.

McDonald’s South Africa collaborates with CATHSSETA to develop workforce

Continuous skills development is crucial to enable the youth to adapt to changing job markets and technological advancements

Cleola Kunene, Head of SME Development at the JSE; Sipho Claassen, Managing Director of Boundless Consulting; Moderator Thembekile Mrototo; Walter Bango, Senior Manager of Monitoring and Evaluation at the NYDA; and Tsholofelo Mqhayi, Head of Social Transformation at CCBSA.
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National plan needed to address youth unemployment?

The importance of youth economic inclusion, and unpackaging key solutions to drive it

Dr Kerhsen Pillay, CEO of GIFS

Victory for financial sector learners as certificates issued after months of delays

The Graduate Institute of Financial Science is fighting back against shoddy service delivery

Dr Thabo Mashongoane, chief executive at the National Skills Authority

Approaches to reskilling in organisations

If the populace is not properly trained, the country will forever lag behind the rest of the world

Both OUTA and the M&G were not able to establish the reason for the discrepancy in the payment or whether the 500 biometric units were indeed delivered and where they are being used, if at all.

OUTA raises red flag about Services SETA contract

OUTA has raised concerns that the Services SETA is siphoning off funds for learners into corrupt contracts

Growing our TVET footprint will place immense pressure on our human and financial resources (John McCann)

TVET gets a much-needed boost

The NMU has launched a meticulously researched diploma that addresses the many critical issues of technical training

(Reuters)

Corruption claims rock mining Seta

It’s alleged that large sums of money were allocated to firms without following due process

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.

Spooks inside Public Protector’s office

Mkhwebane says that it is financial constraints that made her turn to the SSA when the previous CFO resigned

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies. (David Harrison/M&G)

​State owned entities must implement B-BBEE

The minister of trade and industry has called on SOEs to play a more robust role in implementing B-BBEE

Spelling it out: University of Johannesburg students protest in January over delays in getting NSFAS loans.

Thousands seek last-minute places at universities and colleges

The online system can assist with the placement of students, who did not apply to any university because of funding, but who now qualify.

Reject: Blade Nzimande calls a story by Rapport ‘mischievous’ when it said the minister indirectly gained from Seta money.

Blade plans to take over ‘failed’ Setas

The sector training and education bodies and companies together cause the system to flounder.

There has been a regression in Seta audit outcomes.

Billions wasted on Setas funding as skills crisis worsens

Setas are meant to reverse the country’s skill’s crisis but they are not fulfilling their mandate.

EE has long argued that a safe and dignified school environment is a component of the right to education.

Seta chief ‘is player and referee’

A board member is accused of exploiting insider knowledge to land a R26m contract.

The policy of recognition of prior learning

RPL is paved with good intentions

What has become of this policy, which aims to offer a second chance at education success?

The office of the Auditor-General of South Africa says there has been an improvement in financial controls at the Services Sector Education and Training Authority

Small business finds Setas wanting

A closer working relationship must be established between education authorities and employers.

Streamlined Setas for better skills

Streamlined Setas for better skills

Proposed changes to occupation-directed training suggest a multifaceted approach to improve its workplace relevance.

Adults need customised education

Adults need customised education

Formal, official structures have made only a mixed success of basic education and training.