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- By Bongani Mdakane

Dental students at the Tshwane University of Technology, and other such institutions, are unable to find work as the SA Dental Technicians Council has failed to register them.

Unusual meetings between Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and the SA Dental Technicians Council (SADTC) as well as a strange payment to council president have added a layer of controversy in the saga of unregistered black dental technicians and technologists.

Sunday World reported two weeks ago that the current and former Tshwane, Durban and Cape Peninsula universities of technology's black students' employability has been frustrated by the council's failure to register them. As a consequence, more than 500 of these students are unable to find a job or open their own dental laboratories.