SASCO calls for immediate removal of Higher Education Minister Nkabane

JOHANNESBURG - The South African Students Congress (SASCO) has called for the immediate removal of the Minister of Higher Education, Nobuhle Nkabane.

Addressing a briefing on Sunday, the student body’s president, Alungile Kamtshe, said that this was due to many issues, one of which is her failure to appoint a National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) board.

He also disclosed that they had been communicating their grievances with the African National Congress (ANC) in hopes of remedying the problems they had noted since the beginning of the year.

Kamtshe said that they need a competent leader who can ensure that students are not negatively impacted by their governance.

“She has a heightened, latent competence from the level at which she engages with the public, from statements that come from her department that sometimes she has to recant. You would have noticed, South Africans saw how disturbing it was, the sins that were committed. Her responses, her attitude, her arrogance, it is that which is compelling us to come for an immediate removal.”

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