WATCH | \u0027You are overstepping\u0027: Tempers flare at parliamentary committee briefing on NSFAS woes

WATCH | \u0027You are overstepping\u0027: Tempers flare at parliamentary committee briefing on NSFAS woes

Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande, NSFAS leadership and the four companies appointed to administer NSFAS' new direct payment system appeared before Parliament on Wednesday night.

Students have been faced with late payments and non-payment of allowances for food and other essentials, as well as high transaction costs attached to the new accounts they were issued under the new system. Ultimately, she ended up asking the companies to provide the committee with these details - at an institutional level - within the next seven days.I have never heard that a portfolio committed can instruct a member of the executive or an organ of the executive to say 'do this or that'. That goes beyond oversight. Parliament plays an oversight role. I am very worried about beginning to give instructions that, at the end of the day, you can't enforce as the portfolio committee.

"I will have to raise it and, if need be, we need to take it [up] with higher structures because you are now essentially usurping the powers of the management of NSFAS and the powers of the board of NSFAS. In the end, you are also usurping my own powers in terms of intervention. I can't be giving an instruction to do this and you are also giving a parallel instruction."

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