The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has been a key instrument to bring post-school education and training opportunities to several generations of students from working class and poor backgrounds. NSFAS has funded hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries over its 30 years of existence. Most of these beneficiaries have become trailblazers in various industries and sectors contributing to our economy. Currently, approximately 708,147 applicants are being funded by NSFAS across our 26 pu

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National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS)

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) truly represents one of the most progressive interventions by the ANC government to systematically break the legacies of inter-generational social inequality in access to post-school education and training. Today, NSFAS is a massive R48 Billion scheme which funds more than a million students in the current academic year alone. A total 156 700 of these students are SASSA beneficiaries. DHET | Dr Blade Nzimande