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NSFAS urges former students to pay back money owed

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The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) has called on all former students who owe the scheme money to pay up.

Nsfas Chief Executive Officer Stephen Zwane spoke at a media briefing attended by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Hlengiwe Mkhize, on the 2018 registration process for students in Pretoria.

This is after President Jacob Zuma announced free higher education for households earning a combined annual income of below R350 000.

It was also announced that Nsfas loans will be converted into bursaries. Zwane says students will have to meet strict criteria when they apply for Nsfas funding.

“We are no longer going to make wholesale awarding of funding to anyone. We will only base that on whether you have an offer from a higher learning institution, particularly when it comes to universities given that 90% of online applications we have received are coming from the university sector. For the TVETs, that is where it is slightly different. We know that most of the time TVETs are still dealing with a lot of walk-ins. Those that walk-in, Nsfas will be on site to assist students to deal with those sorts of applications.”

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