Can a constituency represented by an individual on an SGB replace its representative either with a new individual or with an alternate once the SGB has been registered and its members appointed?
Membership of SGBs is not as rigidly prescribed as that of NSBs, where membership is constituency-based (six stakeholder groupings are represented on each NSB). Flexibility of SGB membership is necessary to ensure that the appropriate mix of expertise and representivity is achieved. The notion of replacement of “representatives” is, therefore, antithetical to the very concept of the SGB: since membership is individual (it is only nomination which is group-determined), no individual can be said to “represent” a particular constituency. Technically, a constituency can motivate that a nominated member no longer enjoys that support of the nominating body, but the resignation or replacement of the individual is between the member and the constituency, not SAQA. Any new nominee should follow the normal route for appointment to an SGB, which is that the individual should be gazetted and then be appointed by the appropriate NSB.
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