The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) provides crucial support to South African students from low-income households. If you are planning to apply for 2025, checking your NSFAS status ...

“NSFAS is pleased to confirm that it has processed all 2026 funding applications prior to the start of the 2026 academic year as committed to by the 31st December 2025. All students can view their ...

Students eager to acquire funding for the 2026 academic year are urged to start applying to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) before it’s too late. Applications for NSFAS are set to ...

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has guaranteed students vying for financial aid that funding for the 2026 academic year will be done timeously with upfront payments on February 1, ...

The 2025 matric results are out for all learners, now heading into tertiary education. This time can be stressful. It is filled with complex processes, mountains of paperwork and documents and a ...

For the 2026 academic year, NSFAS has streamlined its appeals process to ensure that every student is afforded a fair and equitable opportunity to have their application reconsidered. “Upon receiving ...

As February marks the beginning of the 2026 tertiary academic year, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) said it had successfully disbursed R3.6 billion to universities for student ...

Last week, a student activist advised potential NSFAS students who were grant recipients they could go straight to the Wits University financial aid office where they would be “automatically treated ...

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is set to once again embark on a process of changing the way it disburses funds to student beneficiaries after implementing the failed direct payment ...

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has processed all funding applications ahead of the start of the 2026 academic year. "NSFAS is pleased to confirm that it has processed all 2026 ...