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Students attending classes at Rhodes University claim they have had to resort to begging and prostitution just to avoid starving during the exam period. “I had to go and ask a neighbour for groceries and promised to pay him back once NSFAS had released funds… I’m not even sure if that will happen. The neighbour suggested I could pay him another way, in an inappropriate way,” said one female student. The students who asked not to be named because they were previously victimised when they took on the university on the issue of funding said they had often had to go without food. ....