There are a few criteria included to delineate who can apply for the bursaries. The most important point is that applicants must be South African citizens and they must live in the Western Cape province of the country.
Applicants must also be between the ages of 17 and 35 years, they must have obtained an average of 65 percent or higher for the previous year of study be it at high school or at university, and they may not already be the recipient of another bursary or state funding scheme like NSFAS. Additionally, postgraduate applicants need to have already obtained a bachelor’s degree within one of the above targeted fields of study.
Applications close on 15th September 2023. All prospective applicants can apply on the Provincial Treasury website“I am excited to announce that applications for the Western Cape’s Provincial Treasury bursaries for the 2024 academic year are now open. I encourage young people with a passion for economics, accounting, auditing and even data science to apply now,” enthused Mireille Wenger, Provincial Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities.
“This is also one of our Priority Focus areas of our new and bold economic action plan, ‘Growth For Jobs’, which understands that if we do not put the work in now to create a better fit between the needs of businesses and the available skills programmes, we will not be able to achieve our ambitious target of a trillion-Rand economy in which people have access to the opportunities they need to prosper,” the minister concludes.