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News24 reports that two senior managers responsible for student funding allocations at the University of Fort Hare have resigned amid a Hawks investigation into National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) fraud allegations.
The resignations of the head of the financial aid and bursaries department, Grant Skinnette, and the manager of the fees, financial aid and bursaries department, Alberto Lai Wing, were announced to the university on Monday. The resignations came after they were placed on suspension in April as part of the university's investigation into serious misconduct allegations. They were suspended at the height of rolling student protests over the shortage of NSFAS funding. The university said that following its investigation, both former employees elected to resign prior to disciplinary hearings commencing. Hawks spokesperson Captain Yolisa Mgolodela said an investigation by its Serious Corruption Investigating Unit commenced in February and was still ongoing. Allegedly, the two started up merchants, which they then approved as designated stores for students to purchase their study material and food. Furthermore, they allegedly allocated NSFAS funding to people not registered with the university and to students who had left the university and were no longer eligible for NSFAS funding. Lai Wing joined the university in September 2005, while Skinnette was employed in March 2013.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Malibongwe Dayimani at News24
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