{"id":57981,"date":"2026-05-03T04:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=57981"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:25:14","slug":"2026-05-03-manamela-nsfas-board-clash-over-ceo-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/05\/03\/2026-05-03-manamela-nsfas-board-clash-over-ceo-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Manamela, NSFAS board clash over CEO appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A week of high drama over who should lead the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) saw board members jumping ship, a ministerial warning to dissolve the leadership structure, a fightback and the board ultimately deciding to appoint a permanent CEO, the first in 30 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Just hours before a scheduled board meeting to appoint a new CEO on Wednesday, acting board chair Mugwena Maluleke and another board member, Karabo Mohale, resigned \u2014 allegedly to frustrate a quorum and block the appointment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But the meeting proceeded, and the board decided to appoint NSFAS CFO Waseem Carrim, who has been acting CEO since March 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Higher education &amp; training minister Buti Manamela had also tried to stop the proceedings, informing individual board members of his intention to appoint an administrator and stating that the board did not have a quorum and was no longer capable of taking lawful decisions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Read more.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"c-divider\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Manamela #NSFAS #board #clash #CEO #appointment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week of high drama over who should lead the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) saw board members jumping&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57983,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57981\/revisions\/57983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}