The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has approved more than 600,000 funding applications for the 2026 academic year out of nearly 900,000 submissions received nationwide. In a press conference on Tuesday, NSFAS board…
Independent service provider Intellimali has finally apologised to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) more than six years after the company erroneously credited R14.1m to a student’s account. The Cape Town-based company,…
Sibongile Mani, a Walter Sisulu University education honours degree student, has been sentenced to five years in jail for the theft of more than R800,000 in National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) funds. Members of the gallery were…
Walter Sisulu University student Sibongile Mani, who received more than R14m in her student account from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), had her application to have her theft case discharged refused by the East London…
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has been given the urgent go-ahead to release funds to first-time qualifying students so they can enrol for higher education. They were previously unable to do so due to funding…
A theft trial against a university accounting student has hit yet another snag after it was again postponed in the East London magistrate court on Friday. This time it was postponed owing to bereavement of Sibongile Mani’s lawyer, Asanda…
Applications for student funding for 2021 are officially open. Higher education, science & innovation minister Blade Nzimande on Monday announced that the 2021 application cycle for the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has…
Indebted students breathed a sigh of relief as the government allocated R967m towards wiping out historical debt‚ but some have raised questions about electioneering. On Sunday‚ the department of higher education and training announced…
