Govt owes higher learning institutions $62 million in cadetship fees

Speaking during a question-and-answer session in Parliament last week, Higher Education Deputy Minister Godfrey Gandawa revealed that Government now owes $62 million in cadetship fees to all institutions of higher learning. Gandawa was responding to a question by Bulawayo East MP Thabitha Khumalo (MDC-T), who had asked him to explain the fate of students on cadetship since the ministry had failed to pay their fees.

Said Gandawa:

I concur with Honourable Khumalo that we have challenges in the payment of the cadetship fees and to date, our institutions of higher learning are owed $62 million by government across all institutions. As government, we have engaged our counterparts in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development because it is Treasury’s duty to pay.

He also said that government had embarked on a payment plan to offset the debt and said they are now paying $30 000 every month to the institutions.

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