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ZUMA INTRODUCES FREE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR 90% OF SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILIES!

• The President increases University subsidy from 0.68% to 1% of GDP resulting in 0% increase on University Fees in 2018 for families earning below R600 000.

• Free Higher Education and Training is extended to 90% students at TVET Colleges from 2018 onwards.

• President extends Fully subsidised Free University Education for students from families earning below R350 000, starting with students in their 1st Year of Study in 2018 and phased in Year on Year until full coverage.

• “Poor and Working Class Students ” redefined from R122 000 to R350 000 combined annual household income.

• All NSFAS Loans allocated to existing NSFAS students (2nd Year Onwards) are converted from Loans to 100% Grant (FREE) effective immediately.

• New Accommodation to be built with with urgency and priority given to Historically Black Universities.

• “This policy intervention will enable government to extend fully subsidised free higher education to youth from well over 90% of South African households. Duly, from 2018 onwards, eligible South African children of the unemployed, social grant recipients, South Africans earning below a minimum wage, domestic workers, farm workers, mine workers and entry level civil servants such as teachers, nurses, policemen, municipal workers, security guards, refuse collectors and informal traders amongst others will now access public universities and TVET colleges for free through grants provided by their government.” President Zuma said.

• “Free Higher Education for Poor and Working Class students is a standing and binding resolution of the ANC and Government.