Nsfas To Address Issues Facing Student Accommodation In Kzn

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme NSFAS is working to address issues facing student accommodation in KwaZulu-Natal, where landlords have not been paid.

Angry landlords blocked the entrance to one of the TVET Colleges in Durban over the outstanding payments.

Registration has been disrupted at the Mbumbulu TVET College in KwaMakhutha, south of Durban. This is allegedly due to some landlords of student accommodation closing the gates to these properties over NSFAS payment disputes.

"We blockade the school so that we can put pressure on NSFAS. About 80 students have not paid rent from February until November. Some houses have been repossessed. NSFAS is not paying us timeously. We have spoken to NSFAS, and they have committed themselves to make the payment for September to November before the end of this week, if that fails, we will go to NSFAS offices in Cape Town to demand our money," says a landlord, Thembile Tenza.

Assistant director in the office of the principal at the KZN Coastal TVET college, David Biyela, appealed to the disgruntled landlords to direct their concerns to the NSFAS offices.