Question NW4029 to the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation

Reply:

The Reporting Regulations of June 2014 does not require the Universities in the Annual Reporting to the Department to specifically disclose Total Security Costs as part of the audited financial Statements of Comprehensive Income. However, the Outsourced Security costs are stipulated as part of the Supplementary Data which is verified by the external auditors of the University.

As per the audited supplementary data received and the universities’ audited financial statements, the total amount spent by each institution of higher learning for outsourced security services in the 2022 financial year is shown in the table below. The University of Cape Town, University of Fort Hare and University of South Africa have not as yet submitted their Annual Reports and Financial Statements, we are consequently unable to gauge how much they have allocated towards outsourced security services thus far.

Further, University of Limpopo has not as yet submitted their Supplementary Data and a follow up has been made. The Supplementary Data supplied by Sefako Makgatho University and Sol Plaatje University suggest that the universities have not incurred costs for outsourced security services.  University of Pretoria was billed R11 000 for an outsourced security services.

NAME OF INSTITUTION	SECURITY EXPENSES
Traditional Universities	R'000
North West University	65 082
Rhodes University	8 036
Stellenbosch University	50 092
University of Cape Town (no data provided)
University of Fort Hare (no data provided)
University of KwaZulu Natal	32 831
University of Limpopo (no data provided
University of Pretoria	11
University of the Free State	44 779
University of the Western Cape	78 971
University of Witwatersrand	13 862
Universities of Technology
Cape Peninsula University of Technology	971
Central University of Technology	17 826
Durban University of Technology	54 155
Mangosuthu University of Technology	26 671
Tshwane University of Technology	25 210
Vaal University of Technology	57 271
Comprehensive Universities
Nelson Mandela University	1 832
University of Johannesburg	38 990
University of South Africa (no data provided)
University of Venda	45 530
University of Zululand	30 737
Sol Plaatje University (no data provided)
University of Mpumalanga	22 137
Sefako Makgatho University (no data provided)
Walter Sisulu University	108 265

Where no data is provided, DHET will follow-up with the university concerned.