The South African Book Sellers' Association (Saba) said this was evident as textbook sales had declined since NSFAS had adopted a new payment system.
The company's MD, Stephanus Erasmus, warned that this could in turn have dire consequences for the education system.
He stressed that it was possible that students were sending the money allocated for textbooks back home or buying other things they believed were needed to get them through the academic year. He said if students were not buying textbooks, they were probably not attending classes for which they did not have study material, or they were illegally photocopying the material, or they depended on lecturers producing class notes.Saba said neighbouring countries which had introduced similar methods of the non-ringfenced policy had already seen damaging consequences.
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