Johannesburg - A court sheriff has attached more than 700 vehicles from the KwaZulu education department after it failed to pay bursaries it promised to students, according to Sunday's Rapport newspaper.
The provincial department has failed for over a year to pay more than R36m in bursaries to the Sants Private Higher Education Institution for tuition of more than 1 000 students.
The Pietermaritzburg High Court ruled on 26 November that the department was responsible for paying the tuition fees, Sants' managing director Jaco Bernard told Rapport.
In October 2012 the department identified 1 260 students to study at Sants. The first payment of the total bursary amount of R30m was due in January 2013.
Qualification
The department has allegedly been sending SMSs to students warning them to communicate with Sants only in the presence of a department official.
It has allegedly been threatening not to give them their bursaries should they continue studying at Sants.
Rapport was unable to get comment from the department.
Sants offers a four-year bachelor of education qualification for the foundation and intermediate phases.
It is offered in nine centres in KwaZulu-Natal.