Several students come from different provinces and enrol at a University of Technology (UoT) in Gauteng for the Language Practice programme, because it offers a range of five indigenous African languages as subjects: isiZulu, Sepedi, Setswana, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. Students who are not native speakers of these languages are expected to choose and learn one of them for communicative purposes. Nevertheless, when non-isiZulu students are offered isiZulu as an option to study, they seemed to be hesitant.

Guidance and counselling is an enterprise that promotes learner performance internationally and in South Africa. Guidance and counselling is offered in schools, despite that learners continue to perform badly. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of guidance and counselling as an enterprise for promoting learner performance in rural secondary schools in Vhembe District.

Graduate unemployment is a growing problem in eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. The study’s main research question was on how policy capacity could transform this problem and reduce unemployment in eThekwini. The study used the rationale choices approach as its theoretical framework. The study used a convergent mixed methods approach consisting of a survey of 143 unemployed eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality graduates, three key informants from national and local government and document analysis.