Government mum on money for free higher education


Higher Education Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize. (Sarel van der Walt, Netwerk)

Cape Town – Where the money will be found for the free higher education, which President Jacob Zuma announced last month, remains a mystery.

Higher Education and Training Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize addressed the media on Thursday morning to provide further detail on Zuma’s “historic announcement for free higher education and training for poor and working-class families”, as she termed it.

Communications Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane chaired the briefing, and Mkhize was flanked by State Security Minister Bongani Bongo, who also serves on the inter-ministerial committee (IMC) on higher education.

Source : News24