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Students demand urgent intervention as accommodation crisis deepens

Students across the country continue to face mounting financial pressure just weeks into the 2026 academic year, with concerns ranging from delayed allowances to ongoing accommodation shortages. This has left scores of students battling to afford basic necessities such as food, transport and essential learning materials, placing their academic progress and well-being at serious risk. Olwethu Buthelezi, a chemical engineering student at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), has called […]

todayFebruary 23, 2026 122

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NSFAS clears major backlog, documentation errors delay funding

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) says it has made significant progress in processing funding applications for the 2026 academic year, with tens of thousands of additional students approved. Acting CEO, Waseem Carrim, said the scheme had previously flagged a major backlog of outstanding documentation. “As we move to our 2026 application cycle, we had indicated that about 200,000 students had outstanding documents with the fund,” Carrim said. He […]

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