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Sasco demands 'student bank' and expansion of NSFAS

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The ANC-aligned SA Student Congress (Sasco) has demanded that ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa see to it that the ANC-led government establishes a 'student bank'.

Bamanye Matiwane via Facebook

Currently only students whose household annual income is below R350,000 per annum are eligible for NSFAS funding.Bamanye Matiwane on Sunday, during the organisation's 29th anniversary virtual celebrations. Sasco also demanded a “speedy” appointment of the NSFAS board and speedy delivery of laptops to all disadvantaged students, said Matiwane, who spoke before Ramaphosa's keynote address.

But we are saying we demand immediate arrest of all those who are stealing from the masses of our people and the poor.

 

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