MPs want to be fully briefed about the erroneous payment of R14m to Sibongile Mani, a student at the Walter Sisulu University, according to the chairperson of the portfolio committee on higher education and training in Parliament‚ Connie September. "It can only serve to benefit members of the committee to be brought up to speed on how such a dubious act occurred and why it took this long to be identified. The committee wants to know the number of students who could have benefited from this money‚" September said. "This is unacceptable that such a grave mistake as this one could occur undetected…." She said the committee accepted that this was not the fault of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas)‚ but that still companies that Nsfas used to distribute funding should be "of unquestionable capacity with efficiency all round". Mani spent more than R800‚000 following the erroneous payment into her account. September noted that the company that made the payment‚ Intellimali‚ ...
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