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Welcome to Zkhiphani, our premier issue in a series of newsletters designed to spotlight the activities occurring across the various units of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). As we embark on this journey of communication and transparency, it’s important that we reflect on the core missions that drive us and how this newsletter will […]

The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) was established by the SAQA Act (No.58 of 1995) as part of a wave of educational reforms that swept through South Africa after the end of apartheid in 1994. The primary aim was to create a fair and equitable system of education, training and development that could address the

Dear Valued Client, Thank you for your continued utilisation of SAQA’s services. Please be informed about the update to our tariffs, effective 01 May 2024. SAQA provides a service as per its legal mandate on the recognition of foreign qualifications in terms of the South African National Qualifications Framework (NQF). SAQA derives this mandate from

The Comparative Skills Profiling Surveys and Assessment of Skills Recognition Opportunities Facilitating Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Access to the Labour Market in South Africa and Zambia report forms part of the consultancy Comparative skills profiling surveys and assessment of skills recognition opportunities facilitating refugees and asylum seekers’ access to the labour market in South Africa

As we start 2024, I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on 2023 and share some of my vision and hopes for 2024. Read more…

In recent years, South Africa has witnessed a surge in the proliferation of illegal colleges and universities, commonly known as “fly-by-night” institutions. These establishments prey on unsuspecting students, offering promises of education without adhering to the necessary regulations. As a result, numerous students find themselves victims of these deceitful institutions, facing the consequences of invalid

Dear Stakeholders and friends It is with great sadness that SAQA announces the sudden and unexpected passing of our Chairperson, Professor Peliwe Lolwana. Prof Lolwana was a rare breed of esteemed academic and visionary policy maker. She was also endowed with extremely quick wit, which would often be displayed to the world on her boardroom

To amend the National Qualifications Framework Act, 2008, so as to revise and insert certain definitions; to provide for the formulation of criteria for declaring national qualifications authentic and for evaluating foreign qualifications; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of separate registers of misrepresented or fraudulent qualifications or part-qualifications; to provide for a separate

The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) is a single integrated system for the classification, registration, publication, and articulation of quality-assured national qualifications comprising three co-ordinated qualifications sub-frameworks, each developed and managed by a quality council, Read more…

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