More than 200 students from Mpumalanga studying at various institutions in Russia face expulsion and eviction as stipends, accommodation and tuition fees amounting to nearly R55m have allegedly not been paid.
She said they had tried to contact the Mpumalanga education department but to no avail and claimed it was downplaying their predicament.
“I haven’t had registration in the past three months. Right now if I go to buy bread and the police stop me, they are going to ask for my registration, which I don’t have. They are going to arrest me because I don’t have a registration [document] and my landlord won’t give me a registration [document] until my rent is paid. We don’t have money.”
Department spokesperson Jasper Zwane said the payment of accommodation and tuition fees was expected to be concluded by next Friday October 14, as required by Russian universities. “As of now, the department does not have information of students whose academic contracts have been terminated or students who were evicted from their respective places of accommodation,” he said.
He said the department had established open lines of communication with students and they were being updated on progress regularly.
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