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sustAinAble resourCe stewArdshiP And mobilisAtion; iCt-enAbled
enhAnCements And relAted Cost sAvings; Asset mAnAgement; risk

mAnAgement; governAnCe; ACCountAbility

dAy 1, breAkAwAy room 6 │ Facilitated by DVC POps Lebogang Hashatse

We were caught off guard by the pandemic and it had an impact on our subsidy allocations. I’m worried about the
decline in PG students and international students. (Charles)

The decline in PG and International student numbers will have an impact on revenue related to subsidies related to
students. It also talks to our underperformance in terms of under-enrollment and PG under-enrollments have impacted
us from a subsidy. (L Hashatse)

I just redid all the projections for 2023 to 2025. In 2020 we back approximately R18 million. They deducted R18m and
were 8% under-enrolled in teaching input units which when then we got some more money because a lot of universi-
calculated amounts to R56 million, that we didn’t achieve ties failed to achieve their enrollment targets. Now it means
in our enrollments. Luckily the Department only gives a I cannot put in high numbers for 2023 to 2025 because
penalty of 1/3rd of that amount. This continued for 2021. how can I now tell the Department we didn’t achieve our
enrollments but we’re projecting even higher numbers?
Fortunately, we’re doing wonderfully in terms of our So, now in 2025 we will see a huge subsidy-decline. I’m
undergraduate enrollments, after all the blood-sweat-and- projecting 6000 teaching input units less. If one teaching
tears to get the students to finally enroll, because of input unit = R15,000, we’re talking about R90 million for
emergency Management meetings and so forth. 2025. This is a nightmare and for now we’re still drifting on
the mercy of the Department but it’s going to hit us in 2025.
But now the problem is for 2023 to 2025, I cannot include
those high numbers anymore because the high numbers People think that not achieving our enrollment target it’s
protected us because it gave us 2/3rd of the subsidy which OK but in the long run we’re going to pay for it. (Charles)
we didn’t earn. We didn’t earn R56 million, but we got

Sticking with the enrollment issue, the questions is: what did not work from 2018 to 2021? Answer: we did not manage our
enrollments as best as we should have. (L Hashatse)

In 2018 we had a problem, but it wasn’t too bad. But in to, and it doesn’t look as if it is changing. Undergraduate
2020 and 2021 we really didn’t do well. That was the two enrolment is doing very well. We’ve never done badly at
years which we really had a decline in PG and International undergraduate level. We’ve always reached our targets. We
students. And that decline is continuing. My conclusion put out an alarm that we were doing very badly but with all
is that PG students are moving away from us and aren’t the effort that we put in we caught up. (Charles)
registering with us anymore in the numbers they used

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