Nzimande: Securing extra NSFAS funding ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ Updated Neo Motloung Share this: Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande has warned that securing extra funding to erase the shortfall at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme's (NSFAS) will rob the poor of services. twitter.com/GovernmentZA The minister briefed the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology in Parliament amid the ongoing protests by students on Wednesday morning.
This while the shortfall at Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges amount is just under R1 billion.
"We are gonna be taking R2.49 billion from very important grants that we give to the universities. We then also are taking R500 million, half a billion Rands from TVET infrastructure, which was mainly meant to build news residents for TVET colleges.