JAPAN SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ORPHANS

MBABANE – It’s raining scholarships. Ministry of Labour and Social Security Principal Secretary Thulani Mkhaliphi announced yesterday that Japan had opened its hands to scholarship applications for orphaned children.

Mkhaliphi said the scholarships were for single and double orphaned children who aspired to study abroad. He explained that in the past, only one candidate was considered for this application and added that he had made a request for the number to increase this year.

Although he did not mention how many people would benefit this year, he said he was promised that they would look into funding more emaSwati.
Mkhaliphi shared that the scholarship was one of the best in the world as it covered all expenses for successful applicants. He said successful applicants could study in Europe or America, among other places.

He shared that interested emaSwati could apply through the web address, http://form.myjotform.com/ashinagaaai/aai_2019. The closing date for applications is December 16, 2018.

Meanwhile, having a car will be one of the indicators that will require a response in the application for a scholarship loan from government.
This was revealed yesterday during the launch of the Scholarship Management System at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security conference room.

During the presentation made by Datanet Programmer Muziwakhile Tfwala, it was mentioned that the new application procedure would require applicants to indicate the type of transport they had. The options under this indicator are rented car family car and company car.

Policies

Legal expert Sidumo Mdladla said the system was wide enough to cover scenarios where government would see a need to develop policies regarding who benefitted from the scholarship programme and who did not in order of preference.

“It is not necessarily to say that if there is a car at home, you will not get it (scholarship),” Mdladla said.
He stated that the system was in such a way that if government came up with a policy that applicants whose parents could afford would be given half, the system would be able to cover that.

Explaining about this was Datanet Managing Director Moshtag Ahmed, who stated that there were other socio-economic indicators which applicants would need to fill in when applying for scholarships.
Ahmed said they only selected a few to demonstrate how the new system would work.

He explained that there were two parts to this indicator, one being based on merit and the other determining why government should fund a particular applicant if they could afford to foot their own bill.

“If you have your car and own means of going to school, that means you are affluent,” Ahmed explained.

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