{"id":12510,"date":"2025-10-01T14:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/cessation-of-us-funding-devastates-sa-tertiary-education-institutions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:50","slug":"cessation-of-us-funding-devastates-sa-tertiary-education-institutions","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cessation-of-us-funding-devastates-sa-tertiary-education-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cessation of US funding devastates SA tertiary education institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nkabane delivered her department&#8217;s budget speech in the National Council of Provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that terminated funding to the country. That meant a cut of billions of Dollars to institutions and researchers. Nkabane says Washington\u2019s decision was unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the 26 public universities, at least 13 were affected by the termination. However, there is reprieve as for the current Medium Term Expenditure Framework cycle the Department&#8217;s budget has increased at an average annual rate of 4.4%, in nominal terms,\u201d Nkabane said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12511,"template":"default||default||default||default||default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-12510","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":" South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane says the cessation of United States (US) funding has had a devastating effect on SA tertiary education institutions|| South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane says the cessation of United States (US) funding has had a devastating effect on SA tertiary education institutions|| South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane says the cessation of United States (US) funding has had a devastating effect on SA tertiary education institutions|| South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane says the cessation of United States (US) funding has had a devastating effect on SA tertiary education institutions|| South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane says the cessation of United States (US) funding has had a devastating effect on SA tertiary education institutions|| South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane says the cessation of United States (US) funding has had a devastating effect on SA tertiary education institutions|| South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane says the cessation of United States (US) funding has had a devastating effect on SA tertiary education institutions|| South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane says the cessation of United States (US) funding has had a devastating effect on SA tertiary education institutions","published_date":"2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18082,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12510\/revisions\/18082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}