The Union has learnt with great concern and sheer exasperation that the cause for the delay and withholding of funding statuses by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), is informed by a R9.6 Billion shortfall, confirming previous shortfall forecasts of R10 billion. As we speak, except for a number of SASSA recipients, all students funding decisions have been withheld by NSFAS, these include returning students who had been funded in the previous academic year and first-time applicants. The devastating impact of this, has been that while the children of the rich are registering and taking up already minimal spaces in universities, the children of the poor and working class are waiting destitute on the sidelines

 

Guest on the line: SAUS National Spokesperson:

Asive Dlanjwa