The National Student Financial Aid Scheme says it will track down 5 000 students, who it accuses of lying in order to get funding for the 2020 academic year. NSFAS says it was able to determine that the students, under tax-filing records with SARS, declared total household family income that was above the R 350 000 threshold.

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