MINISTER DROPS BOMBSHELL: OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE FAILING, THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN, AND MILLIONS ARE BEING LEFT BEHIND.
Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela has declared war on South Africa’s entire post-school system, revealing a crisis he says is threatening the nation’s future. In a shocking admission, he stated the country’s higher education laws are STUCK in the 1990s, completely out of touch with today’s economic collapse.
“South Africa cannot continue producing graduates for a labour market that has already moved on,” Manamela warned. This is a direct attack on the university-first model that has left thousands jobless. He points to a SYSTEMIC FAILURE: vocational colleges are being ignored while universities churn out degrees with no job prospects.
The evidence is in the devastating numbers. A government target aimed for 2.5 million students in technical colleges by 2030. The REALITY? Enrolments CRASHED from 700,000 to under 450,000. This isn’t just a miss—it’s a catastrophe for a generation desperate for skills.
Who pays the price? Young South Africans, drowning in debt and unemployment while the system fails them. Even critical science and medicine enrolments are PLUMMETING, sabotaging the country’s future. Meanwhile, as the minister admits, private colleges cash in on easy business courses, leaving the state to clean up the mess.
And what about the billions in student funding? Manamela tried to distance himself from the scandal-ridden NSFAS, but the damage is done. Students are suffering from payment delays and failures, all while officials “work around the clock” on a broken scheme.
The minister promises a radical legislative overhaul, admitting the competition is now GLOBAL and online. But his plan hinges on a system plagued by “governance failures” and a lack of “good leaders.”
They are designing the next 50 years of education on a foundation that is already crumbling. The question isn’t if the system will adapt, but how many lives will be shattered before it does.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
