The institution was among the 15 that were on the list of closed institutions, which did not register with BOTA. According to one of the owners, Sylvia Muzila, the move was a plot by BOTA to sabotage her institution. "It is us who told them that we were phasing out the vocational side because of the problems they were giving us. It was not for them to say that they have closed down our school," Muzila said. She said that the statement by BOTA has the potential of sabotaging her secondary school which also offers Forms Two and Five under the same name. "They did not say that it was the vocational side, but just Tabitha Training Center which mandate they did not have," the angry Muzila said.
She explained that BOTA has given them problems from the moment they were accredited in 2006 upon learning that the institution was owned by herself and her husband, Robert. "We had to explain to them that we were not drawing any allowance from the profits made from the school and that it was a voluntary thing. The money made from tuition went into paying staff and maintaining the school," Muzila stated, adding that they borrowed money to build the school. She explained that lecturers from her school went for an assessor's test at BOTA in 2007 and they were not given certificates after completion, nor were they given full registration. She stated that they were only given provisional registration for three years from 2005. She explained further that BOTA does not work "professionally" with their clients and they never visited their schools nor responded to reports about the performance of the schools. "How can they close our school if it is still accredited because we can still ask for a continued accreditation when this one expires on May 2009. They are not telling the truth and this is sabotaging our school," she said. However, when reached for comment, the marketing and publicist manager for BOTA, Lazarus Lekgoanyana, said that the school was not operational and that is the reason it was closed down. "As long as the institution is not functional we have to publicise that and inform the public so that they do not waste their time going there to apply. We know the school as a vocational training center, not a secondary school. The vocational center was not operational," Lekgoanyana said.
