The recent, and in some cases on going protest against the high fees for tertiary education, has pushed all institutions in South Africa under the microscope.<\/p>\n
The protest action by the country’s youth, led to president Jacob Zuma announcing a zero percent fee increase among universities in 2016, and has opened up the debate on whether or not tertiary education should be free for all.<\/p>\n
The genuine concern raised by students was hijacked by all three of the country’s largest political parties in some shape or form.<\/p>\n
Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, on Monday marched to the JSE to hand over memorandum<\/a>.<\/p>\n Among the many terms within that memorandum, was the following:<\/p>\n “Each and every company in the JSE should adopt a minimum of 100 students and assist with their higher education and training programmes and bursaries from registration, tuition, residence, food, books, and transport money for their adopted students.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It begs the question, how much does it cost for a student to attend university in South Africa, and how much would it cost companies on the JSE?<\/p>\n Much<\/a> has already been written about the tuition costs at South Africa’s top universities, including an article published by BusinessTech<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n Tuition for courses varies quite substantially, from R24,000 to as much as R64,500, for a Bachelor of Medicine (MBBCh) at the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n BusinessTech assumes an average of R35,000 annually among the top institutions to study a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree, Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree.<\/span><\/p>\n University of Cape Town<\/a> guides international students of the costs associated with attending the university:<\/p>\n