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  • 2020-08-25 (xsd:date)
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  • Yes, South Africa’s student aid scheme waives document certification during Covid-19 crisis (en)
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  • People applying for South Africa’s National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) won’t have to certify the documents they submit during the Covid-19 pandemic, claims a post published on Facebook on 6 August 2020. The post shows a screenshot of what appears to be a tweet by NSFAS. It reads : Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, NSFAS has removed the requirement for documents to be certified making it that much easier for you to apply for #NSFAS2021 The state-owned agency provides funding for economically disadvantaged South African citizens studying at local tertiary institutions. The post has been viewed more than 38,400 times so far. It has also been flagged as potentially false by Facebook’s fact-checking system. Did NSFAS remove the requirement for applicants to submit certified documents during the Covid-19 crisis? We checked. NSFAS tweet genuine, from 7 August A search on Twitter shows that the original tweet is genuine . It was published on NSFAS’s official twitter account on 7 August. NSFAS has since posted more tweets with the same information. On 18 August the agency tweeted : As we move to #Level2 lockdown, we urge students to not lower their guard against #Covid19. NSFAS has removed the requirement for documents to be certified making it safer for students to apply for #NSFAS2021. The same information is shown on their website. NSFAS previously required applicants to submit copies of their and their parents’ South African identity documents, copies of a proof of income and a completed consent form which had been officially certified . The document certification was not allowed to be older than three months. Applications are now open for the 2021 academic year. Information on how to apply is available on the NSFAS website. – Naledi Mashishi (en)
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