About Compensation Fund External Bursary
Compensation Fund is currently accepting applications for 2025 academic year External bursaries.
The Compensation Fund Invites unemployed COID beneficiaries with a permanent disablement (PWD),
their dependents and the dependents of fatally injured employees to apply for the Compensation Fund
External Bursary opportunity.
The applicants must have been accepted at a recognised Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College, Community Education and Training (CET) College or Higher Education Institution (HEI).
If you do not receive any response from the Compensation Fund within two months after submitting your application, consider your application (as likely) unsuccessful.
The bursary coverage: Tuition fees, Prescribed Study Material, Monthly Stipend and Accommodation.
Eligibility requirements :
- Fully completed application form
- Certified copies of parent(s) or guardian(s) identity document/death certificate (applicable to dependents)
- Identity document of the applicant
- Proof of acceptance from a public Post School Education and Training (PSET) insitution
- Students must be enrolled to study on a full-time basis, and only under exceptional circumstances students with disabilities shall be allowed to study part-time
- Certification and verification of physical disability by a Health Care Professional or Disability Support Office / WCL forms (Final medical report)
How to apply
- Post Office/ Courier: The Sub – Sub-Directorate: Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of Employment and Labour, Compensation Fund, Private Bag x 955,Pretoria, 0001
- Hand Delivery: 167 Thabo Sehume & Madiba Street, Delta Heights Building
- Email:
The bursary is open throughout the 2025 academic year; however, applicants are encouraged to send their applications on/before the 31 March 2025.
Note: Incomplete applications will not be considered.
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