Ahmed Essop | The crisis of the NSFAS is a crisis of accountability

Six years after the first NSFAS administrator was appointed, the scheme appears to still be plagued by the same issues that put it under its first administration. Ahmed Essop reflects on who should be held accountable for the mess.

The dissolution of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) board and the appointment of an administrator by Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande could not have come soon enough.  

The scheme has been crisis-ridden for many years now, and the issues identified by Nzimande have plagued it for the better part of the past decade.