Chapter 04 · The money trail

Following every Rand from allocation to outcome

The skills-development financing system is large, fragmented and weakly outcome-linked. This chapter follows the money — and asks what it bought.

Aggregate flow
Allocated
R28.9B
Annual budgets
Committed
R21.8B
76% of allocated
Disbursed
R14.4B
50% of allocated
Employer co-funding
R2.6B
Private sector match
Allocated → Committed → Disbursed

Where the leakage is