Graduating Into Debt
In 2020, university students covered by NSFAS (partly) owed a staggering R9bn in student debt. Eleven percent of this debt was owed to universities by NSFAS, and the rest was owed by students. Student debt has escalated to R14bn in 2021, and could likely metastasise into a crisis.
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