Higher Education Dept working on strategy to address historical debt - Manamela Deputy Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela said that while government was supporting poor students through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), they are aware that many others who fell under the so-called missing middle needed assistance. FILE: Deputy Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela. Picture: GCIS
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JOHANNESBURG - Deputy Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela said that they were working on revealing a strategy within the next three months aimed at addressing historical debt at universities.
Manamela said that while government was supporting poor students through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), they are aware that many others who fell under the so-called missing middle needed assistance.
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The four police officers from the Public Order Policing Unit who were arrested for the fatal shooting of Mthokozisi Ntumba will appear in court on Wednesday.
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Ntumba was struck by a stray bullet meant to disperse the students last week Wednesday.
A group of students took to the streets demanding scrapping of historical debt for financially excluded students.
In CCTV footage now made public, Ntumba can be seen leaving the doctor s room where he had gone in for a check-up.
He s moving swiftly along the busy street when the first shot is fired.