The students, who were excited about their first semester results, said they expected to collect their student cards and start with classes as promised on Saturday.

To their surprise, officials told them that the second semester had been cancelled for all distance education students.

"Some of us reported early at Tshwane North College. We were eager to start with classes, but to our shock the curriculum manager told us that all courses for part-time students had been cancelled.

"We were not given any explanation for the cancellation until we demanded one," a student studying financial management said.

"The manager then said the Department of Higher Education and Training had failed to pay them for the first semester and that is why they had decided not to continue with the second semester."

Human resources management student Anthony Mabusela said they had been going to the campus for the past three weekends "and every time head of department, a Mr Modiba, said the system was down".

"Last weekend we were told the same story and that they were busy registering permanent students.

"We were told to come back this past Saturday to collect our student cards and start classes," he said.

On Saturday, curriculum manager Patricia Baloyi told the students to "go home and come back in 2013".

"We do not want refunds. All we need is education and education now," said another student.

Baloyi confirmed the cancellation of classes and referred Sowetan to Modiba, who refused to comment.

Each student has already paid R2100, including a R300 registration fee for the second semester.

The students also took their complaints to the Department of Higher Education and Training but officials there allegedly referred them back to the campus management.

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Aug 8, 2012

BeeEm

Blade! This is for You to handle now. Do this as soon as now before calls are made for You to be fired like Angie. I smell a smearing campaign to discredit officials.
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Aug 8, 2012

SOLUTIONS

Where is the face palm when you need it.
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Aug 8, 2012

Tikoloshe

Hey wena PhuzaFa e...please leave this job for you Commie job. You are destroying higher education on our Country you fool!!
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Aug 8, 2012

MzCritic

I won’t take my child to this college or any FET college for that matter, lectures are lazy, the admin dept always lose students results & that Baloyi woman is just full of herself & she’s so clueless you’ll wonder how did she get that job, an advise from someone who know go to university’s & stop going to FET colleges coz they are full of half-educated lecturers who don’t even attend class’s what they do best ke ho jolana & le ho prekisana

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Aug 8, 2012

mabenabb

hmmm
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Aug 8, 2012

Holdings

The ppl who this article refer to are those ppl who were handpicked by the incompetent college management that has now run the college into bankruptcy. The 2 managers (Curriculum & HOD) do not qualify to be in those positions, hence it's one of the demands by the College Labour Forum in a memorandum handed over to college council on 20/07/2012 to remove those who were hand-picked.

To make matters worse, this Modiba is an engineer but heading the Business Studies Department. As for lecturers not being paid for the 1st semester, it's not the DoET that's supposed to pay lectures as this classes are self sustainable, management has allegedly ciao'd the public funds hence the CFO & Financial Manager have since been suspended pending further investigations.
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Aug 8, 2012

Secretary

Education becomes a crisis
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Aug 8, 2012

sabza007

Where is that barking puppy called Blade Nzimande??? He is busy wiping Zuma's ass instead of attending real needs of students on the ground. What happened to the budget of this college? Has it been deposited to trust fund for building Nkandla's Zumaville already?

To the Management of TNC:
Why did you take student's deposit money if you knew that you were not going to assist them??????? This is daylight robbery. Sis Man !
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Aug 8, 2012

cornelius

Blame it on apartheid, easy.
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Aug 9, 2012

tinkzo

I find it strange that the HOD of that business and general studies to cancel the part time lessons for the simple reason that DHET did not pay them for the first semester work that is not the students problem but the college managementthat should have ensured that lecturers are paid .I want to believe that the management will resume part studies once and for all.
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