The woman said she did not defraud NSFAS and that she was given the funding as the financial scheme did proper financial checks before giving her funding.
Johannesburg - A young woman who took to social media to boast about her luxurious life has landed herself in controversy after claiming to be a NSFAS beneficiary, despite claiming her adopted mother was an ambassador for the country in Europe.
In another exchange, Plaatjie said she had applied for National Student Financial Aid Scheme funding 'because I can', despite talking of her luxurious lifestyle which included living abroad with her adopted ambassador mother after her biological mother died 12 years ago. Plaatjie declined to do a telephonic interview with IOL, but agreed to answer several questions via Twitter. She would also not divulge her name and later stopped responding to texts and made her social media account private as the Twitter storm grew.
In messages to IOL on Tuesday, Plaatjie said she had applied for NSFAS and was duly funded as she was independent from her aunt at that point of her life. She claimed her aunt was not involved in her life then. She said she benefitted from NSFAS only in 2017 and from there on, claimed she had paid for her own fees.
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