NEDBANK AND OLD MUTUAL BUDGET SPEECH COMPETITION FOR SA STUDENTS AND OTHER SADC STUDENTS

NEDBANK AND OLD MUTUAL BUDGET SPEECH COMPETITION FOR SA STUDENTS AND OTHER SADC STUDENTS

DEADLINE: 31 July 2024

NEDBANK AND OLD MUTUAL BUDGET SPEECH COMPETITION FOR SA STUDENTS AND OTHER SADC STUDENTS

Competition Objectives

To grow economic excellence in South Africa by:

• Promoting the principles of sustainable economic development.
• Developing future leaders in the field of economics, with a focus on young black university students.
• Making young South Africans excited about economics as a subject and career path.
• Providing the students with an opportunity to establish contact with key players in the facial world.
• Making the competition part of the National Budget institution.

Who may enter

• The following students are eligible to enter :
  • Full-time or part-time students.
  • Postgraduate or undergraduate students.
  • Students registered for an economics course at any recognised South African institution for higher learning (including the Military Academy and the Universities of Technology).
  • Category winners from previous years are not eligible to re-enter their category in subsequent years;
  • However, undergraduate category winners may enter the post-graduate category when eligible.
• Nedbank and Old Mutual staff, their agents and families are not eligible to enter.
• Entrants may enter each category more than once during their university careers.
• In the postgraduate category only Honours or first-time Master’s students may enter.
• Entrants must:
  • Be South African citizens or citizens of any countries below (Botswana, eSwatini, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe).

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