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Daily Maverick: Budget 2018: Higher education gets R57bn in Budget slated as anti-poor

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Writes Creg Nicolson quoting Isobel Frye;

Beginning his speech, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said the Budget had prioritised the country’s most pressing issues: “educating our youth, protecting the vulnerable and investing in enablers of inclusive growth”. He allocated a total of R324-billion expenditure on higher education over the next three years, including an extra R57-billion to cover fee-free higher education.

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