NSFAS | SRCs demand scrapping of accommodation price cap

Students' Representative Councils at 10 universities have called for the R52 000 annual NSFAS accommodation cap to be scrapped, saying that funding shortfalls are driving poor and working-class students into debt and putting their studies at risk.

Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training, Tebogo Letsie says the student leaders of these institutions appear to be defending accommodation costs, rather than questioning how their universities justify such prices in the first place.

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