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Personnel cost for Temporary employees
% OF PERSONNEL AVERAGE
PERSONNEL EXP. TO TOTAL NO. OF PERSONNEL COST
LEVEL EXPENDITURE PERSONNEL COST EMPLOYEES PER EMPLOYEE

Temporary Employees R27,486,550.74 100 367 R74,895.23
Performance Rewards

% OF PERSONNEL
PROGRAMME/ PERFORMANCE PERSONNEL EXP. TO TOTAL
ACTIVITY/OBJECTIVE REWARDS EXPENDITURE PERSONNEL COST
Top Management 8 R331,647.30 0.06
Senior Management 72 R1,813,472.27 0.33
Professional qualified 221 R2,846,985.12 0.53
Skilled 295 R1,935,278.88 0.36
Semi-skilled 155 R461,948.94 0.09
Unskilled 42 R76,034.20 0.01

TOTAL 793 R7,465,366.71 1.38
* The above table excludes the 4 post-retirement employees in head count and performance rewards. These 4 employees are
included in table “Personnel cost for Personnel expenditure for Postdocs, Interns, European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials
Partnership (EDCTP) and Post retirement contracts.”

Training Costs
TRAINING
EXPENDITURE AVERAGE
AS A % OF NO. OF TRAINING
PROGRAMME/ PERSONNEL TRAINING PERSONNEL EMPLOYEES COST PER
ACTIVITY/OBJECTIVE EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURE COST TRAINED EMPLOYEE
Learning and Development R539,633,633.71 R4,029,167.82 0.75% 389 R10,357.76
Initiatives, including:
• Study Support (bursaries)
• Coaching
• Leadership Development
– People Management and
Change Management
• General Training
(Technical and Behavioural
competencies), incl. Health
and Safety training
Online (LinkedIn Learning)

Employment and vacancies
2024/2025 2025/2026 2025/2026
PROGRAMME/ NO. OF APPROVED NO. OF 2025/2026 % OF
ACTIVITY/OBJECTIVE EMPLOYEES * POSTS EMPLOYEES ** VACANCIES VACANCIES
Top Management 8 8 7 1 12.5
Senior Management 60 71 69 2 2.8
Professional qualified 211 213 200 13 6.1
Skilled 280 248 234 14 5.6
Semi-skilled 146 107 107 0 0
Unskilled 40 42 41 1 2.4
TOTAL 745 689 658 31 4.5
Note: The table above excludes postdocs, interns, post retirees and EDCTP. *Includes the terminations as of 31 March 2025
** Includes the terminations as of 31 March 2026

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