NSFAS allowance is not for alcohol beverages, board chair warns

Rustenburg – The National Student Financial Aid Scheme allowance for poor students is not meant for buying alcohol, so says NSFAS board chairperson Ernest Khosa after an establishment encouraged students to spend their funds on booze.

This was after Khosa, board members and the SAPS visited Europa Lounge, a popular night club in Sunnyside, Pretoria, which had run a social media advert encouraging students to spend their NSFAS allowance money on alcohol.

The establishment was offering discounted prices on alcoholic beverages to students, using the tagline “NSFAS Ingenile”, (it is in,…

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