UKZN Pius Langa Prestige Entrant Scholarship

• R50,000 on UKZN's funding page; R100,000 per annum in UKZN's 2026 student funding presentation.
• Retention into the next year of undergraduate study requires a weighted average of at least 80% across a normal full-year load.
• Scholarships are subject to annual review and renewable subject to academic criteria specific to each scholarship.

No separate application or closing date applies to matric-year entrants: the award is made automatically on receipt of Senior Certificate results from the Department of Basic Education, provided the learner holds a CAO offer. Learners taking a gap year (up to two years) must submit a formal application instead of being selected automatically.

1. Apply to UKZN and secure an offer of a place through the Central Applications Office (CAO).
2. Matric learners who wrote Grade 12 in the immediately preceding year are selected automatically from the provincial/IEB rankings once their results are received; no separate scholarship application is needed.
3. Learners taking a gap year of up to two years must submit a formal scholarship application instead of relying on automatic selection.

See the UKZN funding page for further details.

Selection for matric-year entrants is done automatically by UKZN from the NSC provincial rankings or the IEB national ranking, based on results supplied by the Department of Basic Education; there is no interview or separate committee process for this route. Gap-year learners instead submit a formal application. A recipient may hold only one UKZN scholarship in a given academic year, and renewal each year depends on maintaining the required weighted average on a full course load.