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Dear Raeesa

Thank you for your email. I am going to begin my reply with your goal in mind; which is you would like to register as a Chartered Accountant with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Therefore you will need, and I quote from the UCT Faculty of Commerce Handbook page 112: “Students studying towards the CA(SA) at UCT can do either a BCom (3 years) or BBusSc (4 years) Chartered Accountant stream. All these qualifications include Financial Reporting III, Taxation I, Auditing and Managerial Accounting II and Financial Management or Finance Honours. These studies are followed by the one year Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (PGDA). A PGDA or equivalent from an accredited University is a prerequisite to write Part I of the CA(SA) Qualifying Examination. Successful completion of Part I is the educational prerequisite for the Specialism examination which is offered in either Auditing or Financial Management.”

We suggest you explore your local University for their admission requirements. Listed below are the websites for all the higher education institutions in South Africa:

Public Universities: Compiled from http://www.hesa.org.za/
 

Western Cape:

• University of Cape Town www.uct.ac.za
• University of Stellenbosch www.sun.ac.za
• University of the Western Cape www.uwc.ac.za

Eastern Cape:

• Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University www.nmmu.ac.za
• Rhodes University www.ru.ac.za
• University of Fort Hare www.ufh.ac.za
• Walter Sisulu University  www.wsu.ac.za

Free State:

• University of the Free State www.uovs.ac.za
   

Gauteng:

• University of Johannesburg www.uj.ac.za
• University of Pretoria www.up.ac.za
• University of South Africa (UNISA) www.unisa.ac.za
• Vaal University of Technology www.vut.ac.za
• University of the Witwatersrand www.wits.ac.za

KwaZulu Natal:

• Mangosuthu University of Technology www.mantec.ac.za
• University of KwaZulu-Natal www.ukzn.ac.za
• University of Zululand www.uzulu.ac.za
   

Limpopo:

• University of Limpopo www.ul.ac.za
• University of Venda  www.univen.ac.za

North West:

• North-West University www.nwu.ac.za

In summary, most universities require English and Mathematics for their BCom / BBusSci degrees. Other subjects which may be useful include: Accounting, Economics and Information Technology.

We hope this information will help you to choose your subjects. Best wishes for your future career as a Chartered Accountant.

The Career Planet Team