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 they can enrol for higher education.
They were previously unable to do so due to funding shortfalls, guidelines and a decision by cabinet.
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to student congress and only narrowly failed after a veto. it would have harmed them greatly. steve: sure. so your money, the budget you asked for slashed. liberal groups actually got more money. don t they understand you know, we talk a lot about this, you need to hear both sides of the story. unless you and your group are allowed to, with some money, bring some conservative speakers there, kids there aren t going to hear both sides. yes. that s exactly what we pitched when we we want before full congress this past tuesday. we even cited the guidelines for student congress have very clear guidelines for what gets funded and what they should look at for funding. we ended up being the only people who were citing those, those funding guidelines. we think it s ridiculous. steve: i see here that a feminist organization got $5,100 and an anarchist group that