Minister Manamela says the NSFAS missing-middle loan scheme needs to be revamped [SOUND]

# Minister of Higher Education, Buti Manamela, says the National Student Financial Aid Scheme’s missing-middle loan scheme requires urgent improvement, including simplifying the eligibility and application process. Over 53-thousand students applied for loans this year, but only three-thousand-102 have been assessed as eligible. Manamela says the increase in applications is encouraging, but the conversion of eligible applicants into concluded and disbursed loans remains too low and too slow: