Inspections on colleges enters second day
Inspections at private colleges in Durban continued today.
They began yesterday - with officials from the Higher Education Department dropping in on several institutions in the city - to assess their legality and compliance.
Some colleges were found to be offering unaccredited courses and given warnings.
A victim of a fly-by-night institution in Durban says she wasted an entire year - and lost her parent's hard earned money.
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Mpho Motloung says she has nothing to show for the traffic management course she signed up for in 2016 with the dubious college.
She says she was forced to dust herself off and accept that she'd been scammed.
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Motloung says she's since qualified as a paralegal from a recognised college.
"No one got their qualification up until this day and the college is Missing in action right now," she said
Motloung added, "So for me personally, I just moved on from it because I feel like I just accepted that I was scammed and I had to move forward because at the time I didn't know what steps could be taken," she said.
