Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela announced on Tuesday an urgent overhaul of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) funding model. The Minister outlined the department's vision during ...

A group of students from universities and TVET colleges took to the streets yesterday to express their frustrations over delayed funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), despite ...

A group of students from universities and TVET colleges took to the streets on Wednesday to express their frustrations over delayed funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), ...

Lerato Tsotetsi is one of at least 32,000 Unisa students at risk of not completing their studies on time because the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has failed to pay her tuition for the ...

Students are currently protesting at Westcol, located at the intersection of Von Brandis and Rissik Street in the Krugersdorp CBD. The Krugersdorp News is on the scene, where dozens of protesters have ...

As the 2026 applications for the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) are underway, the scheme has issued an announcement addressing the funding shortfall for the 2025 academic year. In the ...

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) had a budget shortfall of R10.6bn in the 2025 academic year. NSFAS chairperson Dr Karen Stander said this was due to three key factors: the increasing ...

Every year, Hypertext is contacted by desperate young people trying to get information and help from NSFAS, the embattled public bursary scheme that funds a million students in South Africa every year ...