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10 000 matrics can't get into universities
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|January 16, 2026
THE public university system can offer only about 235 000 first-year places for the 2026 academic year, substantially fewer than those.
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, yesterday.
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