SUSTAINABILITY OF FREE TERTIARY EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA It is an absolute fact that education is one of the major contributing forces that can make a country globally competitive, quality education can uplift lives of people especially in information technology that has been creating huge demand around the world. In South Africa , education can play a highly critical role to produce the best workers and business individual among the youth by giving them the opportunity to experience higher education especially among the most poverty stricken areas of South African regions. But the high needs of social demands including food, shelter, clothing; health and infrastructure that are more important have hindered the balancing and budget allocation weighing of such plan for a very long time. The funding requires no option but to defer the possibilities and availability of the proposed plans that may not be sustainable for free tertiary education in South Af...