“No young South African should be prevented from taking up a place offered to him or her at one of our universities, for financial reasons. That is a fundamental assault on the purposes of higher education.”
Well, Prof Bawa, you're welcome to fund those students, just under 40% of them who'll drop-out, another 5 or 10% who'll ran amok and cause hundreds of millions of damage, with no one charged, of university, ie taxpayer, assets, out of your and your vice-chancellors' multi-million rand salaries. Call it the 'Vice-chancellor Bursary Fund'.
Go on, put your money where your mouth is but don't speak for the hard-pressed public - only a small percent who went to university - who are not as fortunate as you and your students. And read about how 'desperate' the economy is, and that SA will probably be downgraded again. https://theconversation.com/latest-budget-underscores-desperate-state-of-south-africas-finances-86362