Naledi Pandor's Budget Speech

I've just read Naledi Pandor's education department budget speech, and it has plenty of stuff in it relevant to the size and shape article. Here are some particularly relevant quotes:

"Chairperson, the Department's direct budget is R16 billion this year. Of this R16 billion, universities receive R13,3 billion. This is an increase of R1,5 billion (13%) over 2006. It is a substantial budget increase.
The R13,3 billion is composed of three main items: block grants, student loans, and merger funds. The largest item is R11,3 billion for block grants. This R11,3 billion is an increase of R1,08 billion (10,6%) over 2006."

"The student enrolment planning process that we referred to last year has been finalised. We have an agreed plan for the growth of HE. We believe the plan to grow from 738 000 students in 2005 to 820 000 by 2010 creates the basis for a more efficient and coherent system of HE.
Growth in all disciplines has been accepted as part of the plan. However, the greatest expansion will be in the fields of SET. These are key disciplines for knowledge creation, innovation and human resource development and we will invest in them to ensure that we succeed in expanding success in these disciplines.
A key focus over the next few years will be on well-designed academic development programmes and the provision of student support services on all campuses with a view to enhancing academic success."

Unfortunately, the Financial Registrar, Tony Long, is on long leave (no pun intended). I'm going to try to talk to the director of the finance division, though, about exactly how much Rhodes gets out of the government, and how much it can hope to get in coming years.