Lovedale Contact Details

Lovedale today is a public TVET college in the Eastern Cape, with its head office in King William’s Town and campuses at Alice, King and Zwelitsha. The name is older than the college: Lovedale at Alice was a mission institution and printing press from the 1820s, which is why searches for it mix the two.

Official contact channels

• College telephone: 043 642 1331, the number the Department of Higher Education and Training publishes for the college
• Head office address: Amatola Row, King William’s Town, 5600
• The college principal is listed by the department as Mr L Ngubelanga. Write to the office of the principal at the head office address rather than to a personal mailbox
• The college website address on the departmental register, lovedalecollege.co.za, is currently a parked domain and lovedale.edu.za shows a placeholder page. Until one of them comes back, the telephone number and the campus addresses are the reliable routes

Campuses and where they are

• King Campus: Amatola Row, King William’s Town 5600, on the head office site
• Zwelitsha Campus: Gert Goosen Drive, Zwelitsha, about 6 km from the head office
• Alice Campus: Victoria Street, Alice 5700, roughly an hour west of King William’s Town in the Raymond Mhlaba municipality
• Applications, registration and student records are handled per campus, so ask for the campus you intend to study at when you phone

Applying and paying

• Public TVET colleges run trimester and semester intakes, and NC(V) programmes start at the beginning of the academic year. Application windows open months ahead, so phone early
• Funding is through NSFAS, which covers tuition and allowances for qualifying TVET students. NSFAS is on 0800 067 327 or info@nsfas.org.za
• A TVET bursary application is made to NSFAS directly, not to the college, but the college finance office confirms registration before the money is released
• Keep your reference numbers. Most delays at this stage come from a mismatch between the NSFAS record and the college registration record

If the college does not respond

• Escalate to the Department of Higher Education and Training, which oversees public TVET colleges, on 0800 872 222 or callcentre@dhet.gov.za
• For a complaint about the handling of an application or an unanswered query, the department also runs regional offices, and the Eastern Cape office deals with colleges in the province
• For a bursary dispute specifically, the NSFAS appeals process runs on its own timeline and must be lodged within the published appeal window

Sources

• Department of Higher Education and Training public TVET college office contact details register, for the college telephone number, the principal and the listed website address
• Department of Higher Education and Training GIS catchment study for Lovedale TVET College, for the head office, King, Zwelitsha and Alice campus addresses and municipalities
• DNS and website checks on lovedalecollege.co.za and lovedale.edu.za, for the current state of the college web addresses
• NSFAS and DHET published contact details, for the funding and escalation lines