With the Eastern Cape the likely home of SA’s first-ever smart city, universities and TVET colleges will have a critical role to play in skilling and training people to ensure they have the right skills to thrive. This is according to co-operative governance minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who said on Monday that higher learning institutions must help SA build job creators instead of job seekers.
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The police have opened criminal cases after four Public Order Police unit members were attacked and wounded, and an armoured police vehicle torched, during a student protest in Mthatha.
The cost of replacing an armoured Nyala is over R1 million.
SAPS is calling on anyone who may have witnessed the attack to report the culprits to the nearest police station.
The SA Police Service has opened criminal cases after four Public Order Police Unit members were attacked and wounded, while an armoured police Nyala was torched, during violent protest action by Walter Sisulu University students in Mthatha on Monday.
Four students from the Walter Sisulu University's Nelson Mandela Drive Campus at Mthatha in the Eastern Cape have been convicted of the murder of a final year medical student in 2017.