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Dear Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor

Wendy Noxolo has sent you the following message via People's Assembly (https://www.pa.org.za/)


Honourable Greetings,

I unfortunately write this email with great distress.

I am a previously funded student and financially eligible for
NSFAS yet mam, I am stuck over 3 months in the academic year with
no response from NSFAS and I applied in August last year. I am
currently studying at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

I understand that this is not the platform to address such matters
but mam it is grave desperation that has lead me here. I don't
know if the reason my application is not being attended to is
because I once studied and was unsuccessful before but I have
always been capable and financially disadvantaged and deserving of
governmental funding. My journey unfortunately was with great
challenges. I am a young black woman in this country, vulnerable
and evidently another victim of this country's crimes and they
side tracked me for some time but I was able to get academic
admission once more however the system views me as another failure
and my financial needs in my opinion are unfairly being tossed
aside.

I among many other young students are shedding the same tears.
Please I beg your office to please intervene and assist us here. I
do not wish this pain of going to bed hungry and not affording
textbooks and being at risk of being evicted, I don't wish it upon
anybody!

I pray this resonates somewhere with your goodness and may you
please intervene. Academically I am also deserving and I am not
just looking for a free hand out.

The prolonged NSFAS applications I understand are maybe to cut
down the number of students that will need funding but this state
of limbo with no certain outcome is the worst form of anxiety.
Please intervene where you can.

My NSFAS Ref No: OA201708288267493

I will be praying for your response.

Yours respectfully,

Wendy Noxolo.


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