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Cabinet approves R7bn extra for NSFAS amid heightened student protests Government will spend R42.1bn on the scheme this year - up from the budget of nearly R35bn in 2020, which was already more than the R32bn the year before 11 March 2021 - 14:53 On Thursday, acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni announced that the government had decided to allocate additional funding to NSFAS. File photo Image: Freddy Mavunda The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has been given the urgent go-ahead to release funds to first-time qualifying students so ...

Some UKZN students are up in arms over registration and other fees they have to pay. The university said NSFAS students were not required to register, but there were fees over and above what they were funded for. Students are also up in arms about residences, saying they were charged but had not fully used the facilities. While students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) are up in arms over various fee payments, including registration for 2021, the institution says it gives some of the best concessions in the country and not all fees students referred to are covered by national funding...