General Rules
- Submission deadline extended. The closing date for the 53rd Budget Speech Competition is 31 August 2024.
- Only online entries will be accepted.
- Once submitted, copyright of the essays vests with the sponsors.
- The winners of the 53rd competition will be announced at the competition banquet in February 2025.
- The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
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).