The NSFAS crisis: When leadership ignores evidence
Bizcommunity | 11.05.2026 18:41
South Africa’s National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) was conceived as one of the most powerful instruments of social justice in the democratic era: an engine to open university doors to students historically excluded by poverty. Yet today, it stands as a case study not only in administrative failure, but in something far more troubling: a systemic failure of leadership. This was not inevitable. In fact, the seeds of the crisis were visible from the very beginning.
