By Karen Jeynes for AfricaCheck The #FeesMustFall movement has placed throughput rates at South Africa’s universities into the spotlight. “Throughput, quite simply, is how many students who start studying finish studying. Or, how many students don’t drop out,” education economics researcher at Stellenbosch University, Dr Hendrik van Broekhuizen, told Africa Check. It is also referred to as the completion rate, or graduation rate. South Africa’s statistician-general Pali Lehohla is concerned that the country’s slow .