TUT students reject new banking system for NSFAS beneficiaries

Tshwane University of Technology'shas rejected the new National Student Financial Aid Scheme direct payment system called eZaga, saying it has been rushed.

The new system will see NSFAS make direct payments into bank accounts using independent service providers instead of doing it through the higher learning institutions. CSRC secretary Keamogetswe Masike wants the scheme to exempt TUT from the process at least until 2024. “Our university is closed, no-one is entering, no-one is exiting. Our concerns have been the same — that it can never be business as usual when a lot of our students are seated at home and have not received their allowances. If this process is legitimate and credible, we cannot have a problem with it, but the problem we are having now is that this process is rushed and it is imposed on universities,” he said.

NSFAS spokesperson Slumezi Skosana said the main objective in NSFAS taking over direct payment is to ensure its accountability on student allowances and to establish a better co-ordinated system for the transfer of funds to students.

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