The appication for the Sasol Agriculture Trust Bursary is now available for interested applicants. You will find the application details, eligibility requirements, required documents and others in this post.
The management of Sasol Agriculture Trust Bursary is calling on all eligible candidates to apply for the ongoing bursary. The aim of Sasol is to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of the agricultural industry in South Africa and also provide support enterprise development projects and emerging farmers.
Sasol also provide support for intiatives that provide education and other training for farmers to improve their yield and agricultural industry at large. It focus on sustaining the South African food security by supporting grains sustainability.
Sasol Agriculture Trust Bursary Details
Below are all the informations you will need regarding the Sasol Agriculture Trust Bursary:
Basic Requirements
Applicants must meet the following requirements toapply for the bursary. Failure to meet all the requirements will get you disqualified:
Below are the basic requirements for applying for the Sasol Agriculture Trust Bursary:
- Must be South African citizens.
- Applicants must be admitted to study full-time with the institution of their choice.
- Sasol Agriculture Trust bursaries are for students applying for Masters and Doctoral studies.
- Applicants must be intending to study in an agricultural field in South Africa.
- Successful applicants should not be a recepient of alternative funding from alternate sources.
- The proposal for the dissertation/thesis must be approved by Sasol Agriculture Trust before commencement with the studies.
- A formal bursary agreement is to be concluded with Sasol Agriculture Trust should a bursary be awarded.
- A supervisor for the study programme must be designated by the University where the study will be undertaken and must be approved by Sasol Agriculture Trust. Applicants should inform their Supervisor that he/she will be required to register with the particular Bursary Scheme on the website and provide the bursary url for the supervisor.
Application Required Documents
Students applying for the Sasol Agriculture Trust Bursary required to attach the following documents with their application form:
a) A completed application form,
b) A certified copy of a South African identity document/passport,
c) Updated curriculum vitae,
d) The latest academic transcript/record on official letterhead,
e) Proof of registration and a fee statement (if available).
Bursary value
The annual bursary amounts will be determined by Sasol Agriculture Trust each year.
Recipients of this bursary must work in the South Africa agricultural sector for the number of years used to receive the bursary.
ii) Bursary Conditions
- This bursary will ONLY fund Applicants registered for Masters by Dissertation or Doctoral qualifications.
- Only Applicants who apply by the specified date, have completed the application form and submitted all necessary supporting documents will be considered.
- Applications will not be processed unless the Legal Undertaking (Section E) on this Application form has been completed and signed by the applicant concerned.
- Application for a bursary does not obligate Sasol Agriculture Trust to award a student a bursary, nor does it guarantee that any bursaries will be awarded.
- Telephonic interviews with shortlisted applicants will be conducted.
- Applicants will be notified of a successful outcome within 8 weeks of the closing date. Should applicants not receive correspondence from Sasol Agriculture Trust within 8 weeks from the closing date, applicants may accept that their application has been unsuccessful.
- The initial instalment of the bursary is payable in January.
- All bursary awards are conditional upon receipt of a positive report from the student’s supervisor.
- Continued receipt of the bursary is dependent on a favourable supervisor’s progress report/s and the acceptance of the bursary holder’s progress report by Sasol Agriculture Trust indicating how the recipient is progressing with his/her studies.
- Applicants will be expected to submit a hard and soft copy of the completed thesis/dissertation on completion of their studies, which will be posted on relevant industry websites.
iii) Bursary Value
- Masters by Dissertation:
- MSc Applicants will receive a total of R95 000,00 per annum for two years.
- Bursaries will only be paid out according to the submitted and approved progress reports by both the student and their supervisor.
- Doctoral Research:
- PhD applicants will receie a total of R125 000,00 per annum for three years.
- Bursaries will only be paid out according to the submitted and approved progress reports by both the student and their supervisor.
iv) Bursary Policy and Procedures
Policy and Procedure Preamble
Sasol Agriculture Trust acknowledges its responsibility to the South African agricultural industry to make a contribution towards ensuring that sufficient graduates address the relevant functional areas affecting the industry. For this reason, the policy and procedures for the awarding of bursaries have been developed to ensure that Sasol Agriculture Trust will enable the Trust to play a role in increasing the availability of appropriately qualified scientists and professionals within the industry and that this process is managed equitably and in a transparent manner.
Policy and Procedure
- The policy will apply to Sasol Agriculture Trust Bursary Scheme and it will hereinafter and in general be referred to as “the bursary”.
- The evaluation and approval of applications for bursaries will be handled by the Trustees of the Sasol Agriculture Trust.
- Students who enrolled for a tertiary qualification, at a tertiary institution that is recognised by Sasol Agriculture Trust, will be allowed to apply for the bursary.
- Students in receipt of the bursary will have to collaborate with a supervisor who is subject to the approval of Sasol Agriculture Trust and the University.
- All recipients of the bursary must submit quarterly progress reports to Sasol Agriculture Trust, together with quarterly progress reports from the relevant supervisor until completion of the study.
- All progress results of the student shall be directed to the Administrators of Sasol Agriculture Trust in writing (email) and will be treated by Sasol Agriculture Trust as confidential.
- Failure to pass a semester or year course can result in the cancellation of the bursary.
- Failure, as referred to above, will result in the student repaying the full amount of the bursary as was awarded up to that point in time. Interest at prime overdraft rate will be calculated from the date of failure until repayment.
- Students will be expected to submit a hard and soft copy of the completed thesis/dissertation on completion of their studies to Sasol Agriculture Trust.
- After completion of a student’s course, the student must work for an industry-related organisation or institution in the RSA for a period equivalent to the period for which the bursary was awarded.
- Failure to work for an industry-related organisation or institution, as approved by Sasol Agriculture Trust, will affect an immediate repayment by the student of such amount(s) as the student had received.
- Interest at prime overdraft rate will be calculated from the date of non-compliance until the actual date of repayment. The student will be exempt from repayment of such a portion of the amount(s) pro-rata to the period for which the student has been employed.
- Sasol Agriculture Trust reserves the right as custodian of the bursary to change the policy, as and when it deems it necessary, but this will only be done with prior notification.
Closing Date
The closing date for bursary application is 30 September of every year. Failure to sunmit on or before the closing date will make your application ineligible.
Contact Sasol
For further inquiry you can contact Sasol directly using the information below:
Marilette Maritz at L&L Agricultural Services (the Administrators of the Sasol Agriculture Trust) through email [email protected].
Apply for Bursary
Click on the application link below to apply for bursary
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