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3. Provisional Patent Application No. 2015/07849, titled: Cancer Therapeutics by Mr NJ Gumede.
Research Funding
Research funding received from external sources is summarised in Table 5.1.
Table 5.1: External Research Funding Received
Staff member/ Department Amount (R) Details
Prof. ZL Dlamini 200 000.00 China/South Africa Research Cooperation Programme
Prof. ZL Dlamini 275 000.00 Italy/South Africa Research Cooperation Programme
Prof. ZL Dlamini 179 990.50 Tanzania/South Africa Research Cooperation Programme
Mr D Pons 450 000.00 EDTEA Funding
Mr BS Ngwenya 495 000.00 EDTEA Funding
Prof. TC Davies 40,000.00 NRF – Rated Researcher Grant
Dr. F Murungu 20,000.00 NRF – Rated Researcher Grant
Mr TT Poswa 30 000.00 KIC Travel Grant
Ms NX Mkhize 30 000.00 KIC Travel Grant
Mr NJ Gumede 500 000.00 TIA Seed Fund
Research Capacity Building 1642 200.00 DHET – Research Capacity Development Grant
Total 3 862 190.50
5.8 Changes in Tuition Fees Charged &
Access to Financial Aid
Tuition fees in 2015 increased by 9%.
Access to Financial Aid and the Provision Thereof
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
All students who wish to apply for financial assistance
call at the Financial Aid Office to collect an application
form and return it at a prescribed date, or alternatively
download it from the institution’s website;
Students who are already receiving financial assistance
for their current year/semester of study must re-apply for
further assistance. Only properly completed application
forms, submitted on the prescribed date and with all
the required supporting documentation attached, are
considered. The closing dates for accepting application
forms for financial assistance are the last working day of
April and the last working day of August every year. These
dates apply to all categories of students. All applications
for financial assistance are processed immediately after
the end of registration and the release of supplementary/
aegrotat examination results and students are informed of
the outcome of their applications immediately thereafter.
UPFRONT PAYMENTS
First-year students who are accepted to study at
Mangosuthu University of Technology but cannot afford
to pay a minimum registration fee are assisted to register
with NSFAS funding after going through the normal
application process.
All other continuing students who intend to register are
expected to pay a minimum prescribed deposit. However,
the deposit is waived if proof of sponsorship is provided.
Sponsored students are not expected to pay a deposit,
but they have to submit award letters from their sponsors
in order to register. Students who applied for NSFAS
funding and have qualified are also not expected to pay
a minimum prescribed deposit because that is catered for
by the NSFAS upfront payment facility.
Bursaries and Scholarships
In 2015 our stakeholders in industry and commerce made
available R23 631 758.55 for bursaries and scholarships,
and from that amount 743 students from all fields of
study received bursaries to cover their costs of studies.
Our bursary and scholarship fund component has been
increasing over the past few years. The table below shows
the gradual increase of our bursaries and scholarships
fund component over the past three years as follows: