UCT Sustainability and the SDGs 2022 - Report - Page 9
worked with Inyathelo, an organisation that works to
sustain and strengthen civil society organisations in
South Africa, to host monthly events from the end of
2021 to October 2022, to support the CANs towards a
path of sustainability. This included monthly workshops
to build and grow the necessary skills. Workshops
involved topics such as revenue-generating options for
CANs, potential markets, and calculating business costs
versus profits. Part of the support also included seed
funding for CANs who developed business plans during
the programme.
Supporting students in need
119 AWARDS
R5 222 584
IN VALUE
Amounts given by the the Postgraduate
Funding Office in 2022 assisting students with
either tuition, accommodation, meals, travel or
all depending on the submission made by the
student.
Several units at UCT provide financial support for
students in need, who, for whatever reason, do not
qualify for national and other scholarship opportunities.
• The Department of Student Affairs provides monthly
cash subsistence vouchers for 130 students in specific
postgraduate programmes. These subsistence
payments were implemented in response to the
withdrawal of state funding for students in those
programmes of study.
• UCT Postgraduate Funding Office provides several
support options for students in need:
՟ Postgraduate students who come from households
with a family income of below R350 000 ($18 533)
a year are able to claim from UCT’s Postgrad
Financial Aid scholarship scheme which includes
meal allowances, accommodation, travel grants and
course tuition.
՟ There is further support, through a partial
scholarship, for students whose family income
falls between R350 000 ($18 533) and R600 000
($31 771) per year.
՟ Students in need who are not funded by a UCT
scholarship are able to claim a Humanitarian Award
which is a once-off award designed to support the
student in meeting their basic needs for a period of
six months.
South Africa – Social
Assistance Programs and
Systems Review - A report
by the World Bank
Supporting policy
for social assistance
programmes in South
Africa
UCT’s Development Policy Research Unit is one
of Africa’s premier economic policy think tanks.
The unit works to inform economic policymaking
by conducting academically rigorous research
into the socioeconomic challenges faced by
South Africa - one of the most unequal societies
in the world – as well as sub-Saharan Africa.
2022 policy work:
The report was peer
reviewed by Professor
Haroon Bhorat of UCT’s
DPRU and Servaas van
der Berg of Stellenbosch
University
An Incomplete
Transition: Overcoming
the legacy of exclusion
in South Africa - A
publication by the
World Bank
The work of Professor
Haroon Bhorat was cited
in this report.
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