JohannesburgNSFAS gets 50 times the NRF’s budget.
The gap strands South Africa’s next generation of researchers in debt.
Wits’ Lynn Morris said about 80% of student debt sits in postgraduate study.
A new bursary toolkit offers guidance, but funders warn it can’t close the funding cliff.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- quantifies funding disparity: R50bn+ undergraduates vs. R1bn postgraduate (2024); NRF budget halved since 2017—frames as national crisis
Sources: Daily Maverick