NSFAS board acting chairperson Dr Mugwena Maluleke.
EXPOSED: The scandal-riddled National Student Financial Aid Scheme is now DEMANDING total control over student lives, launching a draconian new system that TRACKS, TRAPS, and DATABASES nearly a million young South Africans.
In a SHOCKING power grab, NSFAS bosses have revealed plans for a “centralised, transparent” accommodation portal they claim will stop students from being “stranded.” But insiders warn this is nothing less than a TOTALITARIAN surveillance framework, forcing all universities and private providers to comply OR BE CUT OFF. This is a NIGHTMARE dressed as a solution, built on the ruins of a R50 BILLION scheme that has left generations homeless and in debt.
Acting chairperson Dr. Mugwena Maluleke coldly announced the “transitional framework,” a system that will “intrinsically align” move-in and move-out dates—effectively locking students into state-controlled housing cycles. The upgraded portal will become a single point of failure, monitoring application status, maintenance issues, and even “automatic verification” of eligibility. This is the creation of a DIGITAL PANOPTICON for the poor.
Worse, NSFAS is seizing payment functionality, moving funds “in-house” and demanding “robust data-driven reporting” from providers. This isn’t efficiency—it’s a chilling consolidation of financial and personal control over the most vulnerable. Meanwhile, the so-called “missing middle” loan scheme has FLOPPED, with a paltry 12,000 applications against 900,000 bursary pleas, proving government’s promise of support is a CRUEL FICTION.
The scheme’s acting CEO, Waseem Carrim, had the audacity to promise placement “within four to eight hours” of campus arrival. But after YEARS of students sleeping in libraries, should we trust the very architects of this disaster? This isn’t an upgrade; it’s a desperate cover-up for systemic collapse, wrapping failed control in new code. They aren’t building a future for students; they’re constructing a cage made of data and broken promises. The question is no longer if the system will fail, but how many lives will be shattered when it does.
Author: Kayitsi.com
