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The Human Rights Foundation (HRF), in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, will be hosting the first-ever Oslo Freedom Forum in Johannesburg (OFFinJoburg)...

The United Democratic Movement (UDM) demands that Blade Nzimande, the so-called Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology, be removed from office due to his self-serving and selfish behaviour, especially considering the recent R47 billion student allowance payment scandal involving the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). On Wednesday the NSFAS board stated that Tenet Technologies, which dismally failed to pay 80 000 of the fund’s beneficiaries their monthly allowance on time, was unfairly advantaged and then subcontracted its state-issued irregular tender to a firm own...

Calls are mounting on the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to make public its report on irregularities in the awarding of tenders.

The NSFAS board has given CEO Andile Nongogo until Monday to provide reasons why his contract should not be terminated, after it found against him in the appointment of four companies to distribute student allowances. The NSFAS board has given CEO Andile Nongogo until Monday to provide reasons...

The funding scheme's board revealed during a media briefing on Wednesday that Andile Nongogo breached multiple procurement processes in the appointment of service providers for the NSFAS direct payment system.