{"id":914425,"date":"2022-01-08T04:26:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T04:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/makana-mayor-launches-campaign-to-help-prospective-students-apply-for-nsfas\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T04:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T04:26:12","slug":"makana-mayor-launches-campaign-to-help-prospective-students-apply-for-nsfas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/makana-mayor-launches-campaign-to-help-prospective-students-apply-for-nsfas\/","title":{"rendered":"Makana Mayor launches campaign to help prospective students apply for NSFAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/0ea92126-c556-5aaa-8232-f4337dc3b906&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x21&#038;resize=1560x878.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town &#8211; The Makana Municipality in the Eastern Cape launched a two week-long campaign to help students apply for tertiary funding through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) bursary.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is part of the newly appointed executive mayor, Yandiswa Vara and the mayoral committee\u2019s outreach programme which aims to prioritise youth development through acquiring skills and knowledge in the higher education sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Members of the municipality, including the Mayoral Committee members and some students from Rhodes University and East Cape Midlands College, assisted prospective students to apply for the NSFAS bursary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outreach programme\u2019s strategic objective is to empower youth with the necessary tools to ensure that their future is secured to better contribute to the developmental society we seek to build as a government. Part of the role of government is to be an enabler for communities to create a better life for all. We will embark on other similar programmes across sectors to ensure that we achieve our electoral mandate,\u201d the Mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mayoral Committee Member for local economies, Mzobanzi Nkwentsha, the outreach programme was largely successful and processed over 100 successful applications on the first day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe further call on the people of Makhanda to come out in numbers once more when the Mayor pushes toward the second phase of the Outreach programme to ensure extensive outreach to all prospective higher education students. We come from a mass democratic movement that preaches the gospel of education for the total emancipation of the working class. Therefore this programme is one of the programmes that must take centre stage,\u201d said Councillor Nkwentsha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter this campaign\u2019s conclusion, the executive mayor will also launch the SITA leadership programme that is aimed at reducing the scourge of youth unemployment in the Makhanda community,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign will run until the new NSFAS application deadline on January 21.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town &#8211; The Makana Municipality in the Eastern Cape launched a two week-long campaign to help students apply for tertiary funding through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) bursary. The campaign is part of the newly appointed executive mayor, Yandiswa Vara and the mayoral committee\u2019s outreach programme which aims to prioritise youth development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}