NSFAS Application 2025 For South Africans - Key Things To Know

NSFAS Application 2025 For South Africans - 5 Key Things To Know

In today's latest NSFAS 2025 Application news, we will be updating you on the 5 key things regarding the NSFAS 2025 application. So keep reading!

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) was established in terms of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Act 56 of 1999). The mission statement is made up of three distiñnct elements, which describe why NSFAS exists and its impact on the constituency:

1) NSFAS exists to provide financial aid to eligible students at TVET colleges and public universities

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2) NSFAS identifies eligible students, provides bursaries, and collects past student loan repayments to replenish the funds available for future generations of students; and

3) NSFAS supports access to, and success in, higher education and training for students from poor and working-class families who would otherwise not be able to afford to study.

NSFAS is inviting interested South Africans to apply for its 2025 NSFAS application.

How to apply:

Interested Applicants should go to https://www.nsfas.org.za to apply.

Application closing date: 15th December 2024.

What You Need To Apply For NSFAS 2025:

a. Copy of your parent/s or guardian/ spouse ID

b. If it is Smart Card ID: both sides of the card are required

c. Proof of income (where applicable)

d. Persons living with a disability should complete the Disability Annexure A form, this form is available on our website

e. If you are recognized as a vulnerable child by the Department of Social Development, you must provide a completed Vulnerable Child Declaration form signed by a social worker

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g. If you indicated that you do not have certain family member details and/or an abridged birth certificate, you must complete the Non-SASSA Declaration form available on our website

The system will generate a list of required documents to upload based on your application type.

NSFAS 2025 applications are required to download via the NSFAS website link above and complete the relevant required supporting documents listed below and submit it

1) Vulnerable Child declaration form

2) Declaration form non-SASSA