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Thousands of matrics left without university spaces
Cape Argus
|January 16, 2026
THE public university system can only offer about 235000 first-year places for the 2026 academic year, a number that is substantially fewer than the number of qualifying candidates.
The scope of this issue was revealed during a social services cluster media briefing by the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Tebogo Letsie.
“We have 235000 spaces for first-time entering students at our public universities, whereas basic education produced 245000 students with bachelor's passes. So, the difference there is 10000 students. It is not what we desire,” Letsie said.
He added that the higher education sector has also increased spaces for first-time students this year by 33000 because last year they had 202 000 spaces.
“We're now at 235 000. It's a gradual increase, and we've indicated that the reason why we're increasing this way is that we have enrolment targets that are linked to the budget.
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