More than half a million first-time applications for bursaries had been received by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) by the end-November deadline, the student funding organisation said on Monday.

NSFAS administers the funding of government’s free higher education and training policy and has about R33bn to disburse in 2020...

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