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Students carry the cost of NSFAS funding cap, Parliament hears

Calls for accommodation cap to be scrapped or redesigned

University of Cape Town students protested in 2025 about the National Student Financial Aid Scheme’s cap on accommodation costs. Students say they cannot afford to fund the gap. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) accommodation funding cap has not managed to curb high student housing prices. Instead, it has been used as a “price signal” for service providers to push up rents, Minister of Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela told Parliament’s portfolio committee for higher education on Friday.
The briefing follows protests and calls by University of Cape Town (UCT) students that NSFAS scrap the cap because students can’t afford to cover the difference.
NSFAS introduced the cap in 2023 to manage unregulated and…

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