Call for TVET colleges to be exempt from load shedding

TECHNICAL vocational education and training (TVET) students have called for all of their 50 colleges to be exempted from Eskom’s rolling load shedding as their electricity-connected technology practical studies had been severely affected. The call came as Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan announced the government’s intention to appeal against the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria ruling that schools, health facilities and police stations should be exempted from load shedding. The South African Technical Vocational Education and Training Student Association (Satvetsa), which is the mother body of TVET student representative councils, said students were losing many hours of studies because of power cuts which are at stage 6 and were feared to be escalating to stage 8. For instance, on Wednesday some parts of Pietermaritzburg where there are five campuses suffered four…