Christine Maritz

Hi Sylvia, thank you for this, it is most useful!

Hi Sylvia, I am eager to know whether the meeting for the HE Amendment Bill took place on 11 May and what the outcome was?  Have you heard anything relating to this?
Thank you.

Hi Lynel – The SETA stipulated to me that it needs to be a public provider.  I think it stems from the SDA that partnerships need to be formed between public and private providers, so our SETA is ensuring  that us as a private institution, makes use of public providers.  We are happy though that they approved the private provider after I co…[Read more]

For my recent learnership, the SETA clearly stipulated that the provider should be a public provider and not a private provider.  After I exhaused trying to find a public provider for the training, I could proof to the SETA that I needed to source a private provider.
Unfortunately, the SETAs are becoming very descriptive as to which provider you…[Read more]

It is absolutely wonderful how people and organisations are opening their hearts and pockets to this cause.  Vibro Bricks sent many truck-loads of feed to farmers, organisations are delivering millions of liters of water to drought-sticken areas, Boere in Nood are delivering feed and water for animals on the farms and last night I saw on Carte…[Read more]

Hi Thabisile
interesting comment from you that you are engaging the SETAs to make professional registration for SDFs a prerequisite… Kindly provide more information?  Who do you work for?  Thanks a stack.

Thank you, Alan – very important to study this document and to make sure that we participate in the call for responses.The SDF Forum for Universities SA will be discussing this next week at our annual meeting.

Thanks Hannes, you are so right.  It is a sad state of affairs.  I put the blame for most of this squarely in the hands of government.  The statistics of squandered funds by SA Government is appalling – billions of Rands are being lost due to mismanagement and corruption.  The latest statistics show that we could have educated 100 million stu…[Read more]

I am referring now to us, as the employer.  We employ the learner on the learnership and we pay the stipend, not the SETA.  We put them through our payroll and flag them as a learner – currently this means no UIF contributions.  However, should this change, the employer will pay over the UIF as for any other staff member.  Their stipends are rel…[Read more]

Thank you, Sylvia – it makes a great deal of sense to have the UIF for the learners.  

Thank you, Sylvia – do you have a date from when this will be coming into effect?

Celeste, the wonderful thing about learnerships and the difference between doing a qualification  and a learnership, is the the practical workplace experience which is added to the learning process.  Whilst the learners attend block classes, they also have an agreement with an employer for the duration of the learnership, where they work for a s…[Read more]

Hi Sylvia
Learnerships are within the realms of the SETAs and the different SETAs have slightly different ways of registering new learnerships.  The best bet would be for the provider to speak to their SETA.

Thank you, Sylvia.

Hi Sylvia
This is great news, particularly in the light of the amended BBBEE Act which came into effect from 1 May 2015 with the huge spending companies need to make to skills development.  Any extra grants are welcomed.

Herewith attached please find the Judgement as per your request.

I agree with you Marie – I come from a mining house history and their training programmes for illiterate staff on the mines are of the best.  Unfortunately, learning is something that you need to do and want to do for your own benefit.

The mines have better training for stamping out illiteracy for their miners than many other companies have for their cleaning staff for instance.  These courses inculcate everything, from mathematical literacy and language literacy and life skills which includes financial and budgeting training.  We offer these courses at my company, but not all s…[Read more]

As far as I can remember, there is no difference between ABET and AET – the word “Basic” was dropped from the name and acronym only.