US EditionNkabane Snubs Parliament Amid SETA Board Appointment Chaos
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, JUL 18 – Minister Nobuhle Nkabane missed a parliamentary hearing on controversial Sector Education and Training Authority board appointments amid allegations of misleading lawmakers and political interference.
- On Friday, 18 July 2025, Higher Education and Training Minister Nobuhle Nkabane failed to appear to address controversial Seta board appointments at the Good Hope Chamber in Cape Town.
- Concerns about the panel’s independence emerged after Nkabane’s appointment recommendations, prompting Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training to suggest she appear to explain the process.
- She wrote `Allow me to tender my apology to you and the entire committee in this regard`, then apologized to attend a GBV event in the Eastern Cape and delivered a keynote at Buffalo City TVET College.
- The committee formally rejected her apology, Johnathan Paoli reported, and ordered her to appear before the committee on Tuesday next week.
- The Democratic Alliance laid a criminal complaint and reported her to the Public Protector and Parliament’s Ethics Committee, while the committee warned it will invoke all parliamentary mechanisms to compel her presence if she fails again.
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