4.5 Presentation by the Mopani District Municipality The role of the municipality to support educational challenges is to compliment the departmental efforts in terms of resource provision such as water, sanitation and infrastructure at schools and FET Colleges. In the Mopani District 37.8 % of the population never went to school, 12.7 % have Matric, 6.5 % have Higher Education and 24.3 % have completed secondary education. Challenges . The absence of departmental officials at meetings is a major concern for the municipality; . The inability to place unemployed learners and a lack of a database of students who completed the learnerships; . No budget to train communities and non provision of bursaries from the municipality; and . The lack of involvement of the SETAs and constant delays by the Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority (LGSETA) to disburse funds.