Question NW3843 to the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans
27 November 2017 - NW3843
Cassim, Mr Y to ask the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans
Of the 7 146 bursaries granted to the dependents of military veterans in the 2016-17 financial year, what (a) military formation was each military veteran part of, (b) number of bursaries were granted for primary school, high school, technical vocational education training college and university levels at both (i) public and (ii) private institutions, (c) were the academic and other associated fees per annum per institution, (d) was the total cost of the bursaries in terms of the categories of fees, (e) number of bursaries were found to have been granted fraudulently without verification on the Military Veterans National Database, (f) are the details of the bursary recipients including their military veterans parents’ affiliation to the various military formations and (g) remedial measures were taken to recover the costs of bursaries that were found to have been granted fraudulently?
Reply:
1. In 2016 /17 financial year the DMV granted bursaries to 7146 Military Veterans and Dependants as per DMV 2016/17 annual report and 4685 Basic education and 2461 Tertiary education.
(a) (i) Military Formation Basic Education
|
BASIC EDUCATION BURSARY HOLDERS PER MILITARY FOMATION |
|
|
STATUTORY FORCES |
NUMBER OF BURSARY HOLDERS |
|
APLA |
562 |
|
AZANLA |
196 |
|
MK |
2048 |
|
BDF |
77 |
|
CDF |
55 |
|
TDF |
63 |
|
VDF |
12 |
|
SACC |
8 |
|
SANDF |
1157 |
|
SADF |
507 |
|
TOTAL |
4685 |
Total NSF basic education bursary holders is 2806 (60%) and Statutory 1879 (40%)
(a) (ii) Military Formation Tertiary Education
|
TERTIARY EDUCATION BURSARY HOLDERS PER MILITARY FOMATION |
|
|
STATUTORY FORCES |
NUMBER OF BURSARY HOLDERS |
|
APLA |
269 |
|
AZANLA |
81 |
|
MK |
1050 |
|
BDF |
73 |
|
CDF |
35 |
|
TDF |
105 |
|
VDF |
43 |
|
SANDF |
371 |
|
SADF |
434 |
|
TOTAL |
2461 |
Total NSF tertiary institutions is 1400 (57%) and Statutory 1061 (43%).
b)(i) Basic education number of bursaries granted for primary school, high school, technical vocational education at both (i) public and (ii) private institutions
|
CATERGORY |
TOTAL NUMBER OF BURSARIES |
PUBLIC |
PRIVATE |
|
Primary |
2532 |
1798 |
734 |
|
High School |
2134 |
1536 |
598 |
|
Technical Vocational |
19 |
2 |
17 |
|
TOTAL |
4685 |
3336 |
1349 |
b)(ii) Tertiary education number of bursaries granted training college and university
levels at both (i) public and (ii) private institutions
|
CATERGORY |
NUMBER OF BURSARIES |
PUBLIC |
PRIVATE |
|
Universities |
1454 |
1454 |
0 |
|
TVET Colleges |
151 |
151 |
0 |
|
Private Colleges |
856 |
0 |
856 |
|
TOTAL |
2461 |
1605 |
856 |
c) Education academic and other associated fees per annum per institution,
NB; Costs calculated at average costs, However at tertiary institutions students are likely to use the maximum allocated.
|
CATERGORY |
FEES PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS |
FEES PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS |
TOTAL AVERAGE |
|
Basic Education |
R11 000 |
R26 400 |
R18 700 |
|
Tertiary Education |
R55 000 |
R59 000 |
R57 000 |
d) was the total cost of the bursaries in terms of the categories of fees
|
CATERGORY |
FEES PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS |
|
Basic Education |
R49 000 000 |
|
Tertiary Education |
R133 200 000 |
|
TOTAL 2016/17 COSTS |
R182 200 000 |
e) Not applicable
f) Not applicable relates to e) above.
g) Not applicable relates to e) above