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Engineering the next 50 years | SA News

8 February 2026 by Guest
Buti Manamela 0585 Dv

South Africa is gearing up for one of the most significant overhauls of its post-school education and training system since democracy.

Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela is seeking to expand the role of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges to tackle massification pressures.

But first he has his eye on modernising higher education law, which he said had barely shifted since the late 1990s.

Manamela said the country must “engineer the system for the next 30 to 50 years”, noting that the country’s National Development Plan (NDP) extended to only 2030. 

He…

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  1. Gabriel Dandelion

    8 February 2026 at 7:10 pm

    I saw a quote by Nelson Mandela on MyZA – can you tell me what date did he die?

  2. Juno Cream

    8 February 2026 at 5:08 am

    One day we will all be writing like this.

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