The disastrous Vukani aviation project has failed and cadet pilots should be relocated elsewhere
9 August 2015
The lives and future livelihoods of dozens of young, bright cadet pilots who were recruited into the Vukani Aviation Programme, a National Skills Fund programme managed by the Department of Higher Education and Training, are at risk.
The DA calls for the programme to be halted permanently and for all cadets to be relocated to alternative flying schools in order to finish their training, which has cost the NSF some R77 million, in a reliable and high quality setting.
The DA recommended over a month ago to the Department that the Vukani programme be investigated for a range of alleged failings, including allegations that students had signed dubious contracts and had been misled as to what their training would constitute. Further allegations made and conveyed to the Department were that:
- the School in which the project was located, SAFTA, had only a handful of working planes