The South African Government set up the Mining Qualifications Authority in 1996, under the Mine Health and Safety Act, 29 of 1996, to train mineworkers on health and safety issues in order to minimise mine injuries and deaths. Later, the then Minister of Labour re-established the Authority as a Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) in 2000, when SETAs were set up to replace the old Industry Training Boards (Skills Development Act, 97 of 1998). The mandate of SETAs includes providing for learnerships, internships, undergraduate bursaries, graduate development programmes and apprenticeships. These Authorities have several challenges, which include poor governance, a lack of accountability, a lack of data or poor quality data, inadequate information management, and absent or ineffective monitoring and evaluation arrangements (Ministerial Task Team on SETA Performance, 2013). These challenges have not spared the Mining Qualifica