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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 08:50:19 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Judge overturns Minister Nzim ande’s decision James your posting confirms this a tweedie forum Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: James Tweedie <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 09:45:41 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Judge overturns Minister Nzim ande’s decision Done as you requested Freedom. I am one of the new group moderators by the way. James On 4 May 2011 09:42, freedom ngubonde <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! Dominic and all cormades > > Please stop sending me emails to this address ([email protected]), > you can only sent the emails to [email protected] > > Thank you! > > Freedom_ > > > > On Wed, 4 May 2011 09:32:00 +0100 James Tweedie wrote > > > What happened to "The people shall govern"? > > > On 4 May 2011 05:54, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> [image: Business Day] >> >> >> Judge rules Nzimande’s Seta ‘grab’ out of order >> >> Court will now hear plea to undo minister’s transfer of R1bn funds >> >> >> Sue Blaine, Business Day, Johannesburg, 4 April 2011 >> >> HIGHER Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande’s controversial >> attempt to shake up SA’s training agencies was dealt a stunning blow in >> court yesterday. >> >> A Labour Court judge ruled Mr Nzimande did not have the legal power to >> impose a new constitution on the Services Seta, and that the constitution he >> had tried to impose was in breach of the Skills Development Act. >> >> Judge Annelie Basson also ruled Mr Nzimande’s appointment of former >> African National Congress (ANC) office bearer Sihle Moon as chairman of the >> Seta was invalid, as was his appointment of a new council, one of whose >> members was Nolwande Mantashe, wife of ANC secretary- general Gwede >> Mantashe. >> >> Today, the Services Seta will return to the Johannesburg Labour Court, to >> ask it to overturn Mr Nzimande’s decision last week to transf er R1bn from >> its bank account to the National Skills Fund. Parliament heard earlier this >> year that the fund had a budget deficit of just under R1bn. >> >> Attorney Itayi Gwaunza, who represents Services Seta CEO Ivor Blumenthal >> and eight others, said the ruling could have implications for all Setas, >> which were asked to sign the same constitution. >> >> Mr Nzimande’s spokesman, Nqaba Nqandela, said the Department of Higher >> Education and the minister were "still studying" the judgment before >> commenting. >> >> He did not answer questions on why Mr Nzimande transferred the Services >> Seta’s funds to the National Skills Fund, and why he placed the Seta under >> administration while the Labour Court judgment was pending. >> >> Mr Blumenthal said he was "relieved" at Judge Basson’s judgment, and was >> "relatively upbeat" about today’s application. >> >> "It’s not an us-or-them situation. We are really trying to find a way of >> accommodating our stakeholders’ concerns and what the minister is trying to >> achieve, which is better administration and governance of the Setas. We are >> not against that, but it must be done procedurally," he said. >> >> Mr Nzimande’s actions against the Services Seta appear to be linked to his >> promise last year to change legislation if necessary to exert his executive >> authority over the Setas. They were placed under his department by President >> Jacob Zuma in terms of an ANC decision at its Polokwane conference. >> >> He has since criticised the Setas for uneven performance and for not >> spending National Skills Fund monies. He has threatened to confiscate Seta >> funds and use them for other skills training. >> >> Reforming skills training is in Mr Nzimande’s performance agreement, >> signed in 2009 with President Jacob Zuma. It commits him to produce 10000 >> artisans a year by 2015 from about 8000 now. Yesterday, Mr Nzimande said SA >> had invested a lot of its skills levy fund — accumulated from a 1% levy on >> payrolls of businesses with an annual turnover of at least R500000 — on >> short courses of "dubious value", while there was a shortage of artisans, >> accountants and engineers. >> >> "We can’t have a training system that is 75%-80% short course (-based) ... >> We need to begin to be more biased towards a structured occupational trade >> and professional programme, because that is where we are short," he said in >> Pretoria after addressing a meeting of professional bodies. >> >> Judge Basson ruled that Mr Nzimande did not have the necessary legal power >> to impose a new constitution on the Services Seta and, even if he had, the >> new constitution was in breach of the Skills Development Act. >> >> It was argued before Judge Basson last month that Ms Mantashe had no >> qualifications for the appointment. 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