The following are the South African universities with the largest financial endowments, expressed in South African Rands at fair value. A financial endowment is a transfer of money and/or property donated to an institution and the total value of an institution's investments is often referred to as the institution's endowment. All sources are official audited financial statements published in the respective fiscal years. For this list, short scalebillions (thousand of millions) are used.
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^"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) University of Pretoria Annual Review 2010 Retrieved 20 May 2012