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Eastern Cape CET College

Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape CET College is one of South Africa’s nine public Community Education and Training (CET) Colleges, established under Section 3(1)(b) of the Continuing Education and Training Act 16 of 2006. Per the college’s history page, the CET sector came into being on 1 April 2015, when the former Public Adult Learning Centres migrated from provincial education departments to the national Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), creating 9 CET Colleges (one per province) from 3,276 Community Learning Centres nationally.

Community College Accredited Not Confirmed

Free State CET College

Free State

Free State Community Education and Training College (FS CETC) is a public college established by the Minister of Higher Education and Training in 2015 in terms of the Continuing Education and Training Act 16 of 2006. It was formed by absorbing 204 formerly independent Public Adult Learning Centres across the Free State province, which were rebranded as Community Learning Centres (CLCs) and Satellite Learning Centres (SLCs).

Community College Accredited Not Confirmed

Gauteng CET College

Gauteng

Gauteng CET College (Gauteng Community Education and Training College) is a public community education and training institution operating under South Africa’s Department of Higher Education and Training. Like the country’s other eight CET colleges, it was formed when previously separate provincial Community Learning Centres (formerly known as Adult Learning Centres / ABET centres) were consolidated into a single public college under the Continuing Education and Training Act, 2006, following the 2019 nationwide establishment of CET colleges; the college’s own website confirms it was ‘previously known as ABET’ but does not state an exact founding date.

Community College Accredited Not Confirmed

KwaZulu-Natal CET College

KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal Community Education and Training (CET) College is a public college established under the Continuing Education and Training Act, 16 of 2006, and falls under the national network of nine CET colleges formed in 2019 from the former provincial Community Learning Centres/Adult Learning Centres. The college’s own website states it was established on 1 April 2015 under the Department of Higher Education and Training.

Community College Accredited Not Confirmed

Limpopo CET College

Limpopo

Limpopo CET College is a public Community Education and Training (CET) college falling under the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), part of the national CET sector established from the former Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) system under the Continuing Education and Training Act, 2006. Its college profile states it was ‘previously known as ABET’.

Community College Accredited Not Confirmed

North West CET College

North West

North West CET College is the public Community Education and Training (CET) college for the North West province, one of South Africa’s nine provincial CET colleges established under the Continuing Education and Training Act 16 of 2006 (with the Department of Higher Education and Training reporting the CET college system came into being on 1 April 2015, absorbing the former Community Learning Centres/Adult Learning Centres network). It is headquartered in Mafikeng and delivers second-chance basic and further education to youth and adults through a network of Community Learning Centres (CLCs) and their satellite centres located across North West, in areas including Atamelang, Dinokana Village, Ikageng, Madidi, Mahikeng, Mathibestad, Mogwase, Pella Village, Rustenburg and Taung.

Community College Accredited Not Confirmed

Northern Cape CET College

Northern Cape

Northern Cape Community Education and Training (CET) College is a public post-school institution operating under the national Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), headquartered at 19 Oliver Road, Klisserville, Kimberley. Like South Africa’s eight other CET colleges, it was created under the framework set out in the 2013 White Paper for Post-School Education and Training, which provided for community education and training colleges to be formed from the incorporation of thousands of existing adult education and training centres nationally (the sector formally became CET colleges from 2019 under the Continuing Education and Training Act, 2006).

Community College Accredited Not Confirmed

Western Cape CET College

Western Cape

The Western Cape Community Education and Training College (WCCETC) is a public post-school institution headquartered in Bellville, Western Cape, which its own website states was established in 2015 as a Higher Education Learning Institution. It falls within South Africa’s national network of CET colleges, formed when public adult/community learning centres were brought under provincial administration pursuant to the Continuing Education and Training Act, 2006 (as amended); the site does not itself cite the Act or name predecessor institutions.