Application Guides How to Apply for Bursaries Online Almost every bursary in South Africa is now applied for online — through a funder’s portal, by emailed PDF, or both. That shift has made applying cheaper and faster, but it has also created new ways to fail: blurry scans, files named “scan_FINAL2.pdf”, portals abandoned at 98% … Read more
Documents & Requirements Bursary Academic Requirements Explained Every bursary advert carries a paragraph of academic requirements — “a minimum APS of 32”, “65% in Mathematics”, “bachelor’s pass required” — and every year thousands of students either skip bursaries they actually qualified for or waste afternoons on applications that were dead on arrival. This guide translates … Read more
Types of Funding Government Bursaries in South Africa Beyond NSFAS there’s a second layer of state funding most applicants never explore: bursaries run by government departments to grow the specific professionals the country needs — teachers through Funza Lushaka, health workers, social workers, scarce-skill specialists. Here’s how these programmes work, who qualifies, and how the … Read more
Application Guides How to Prepare for a Bursary Interview Getting called to a bursary interview means your application survived the paper sift — the committee already likes your file, and now they want to meet the person inside it. That’s good news, but it’s not the end of the process. This guide covers how to … Read more
Documents & Requirements Proof of Registration and Acceptance Letters for Bursaries “Attach proof of registration” — four words that have derailed more bursary applications than any exam ever written. The problem is almost never the student’s marks. It’s that the letter they attached is the wrong one: an application acknowledgement instead of an acceptance, an … Read more
After You Apply Understanding Your Bursary Agreement Before You Sign Somewhere between “congratulations, you’ve been awarded a bursary” and the first payment sits a document that most students sign without reading: the bursary agreement. It is a legally binding contract that can oblige you to maintain marks, work for the sponsor after graduation, and in … Read more
Application Guides How to Write a Bursary Motivational Letter The motivational letter is the one part of a bursary application where you stop being a set of marks and documents and become a person. Selection committees read hundreds of them, and most are forgettable within seconds. This guide shows you how to write one that … Read more
Types of Funding Corporate Bursary Programmes Explained When a bank, mine, or engineering firm pays for your degree, it isn’t charity — it’s recruitment that starts years before your first day at work. Understanding that one fact explains everything about how corporate bursaries work: who gets them, what the work-back clause really means, and how … Read more
Deadlines & Planning Bursary Application Rejected? What to Do Next A rejection email lands like a door slamming — but most of the time it isn’t a locked door, it’s a revolving one. The students who eventually get funded are usually the ones who treated “no” as information: they asked why, fixed what was fixable, … Read more
Documents & Requirements How to Certify Documents for a Bursary Application Almost every bursary application in South Africa opens with the same instruction: “attach certified copies”. It sounds simple — until you’re standing at a police station counter wondering whether the officer can certify your matric certificate, whether the stamp from March is still acceptable … Read more