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Registration and other support for students

Nelson Mandela University has put additional systems in place to support students who will be registering at various campuses (North, South, Missionvale and George) from Monday.

 

Registration

The assisted registration process will start exactly a week after online registration for returning Mandela University students began. About 2000 students have registered online to date. Students can follow the link www.mandela.ac.za/Registration to register online. 

New students should report to the registration venues specified for them to register online and to get information on orientation. Assisted registration will continue until Friday, 2 February.  Thereafter, students can email online.registrations@mandela.ac.za if they require assistance. Classes commence on Monday, 3 February.

NSFAS

The University is still awaiting outcomes from NSFAS to enable students to register. NSFAS hopes to release the relevant information by Monday. 

 

Student Access Working Group 

NSFAS/registration challenges

The University is aware of the many challenges and uncertainties students who applied for NSFAS loan funding and other opportunities are facing in trying to register online.

NSFAS loans

As NSFAS has not yet released its 2019 application results nationally, online registration for senior students is being delayed. While the University is in constant communication with NSFAS on such matters, it is, in the interim, creating its own supporting solutions.    

Please be assured as we await key information that NSFAS students and those who fall into other categories of financial support – be it a NSFAS loan or a DHET bursary - that all those who qualify will eventually be able to register going forward.

 

Supporting documentation

In preparing to apply online for the relevant support, please be pro-active in gathering the necessary documentation listed below:   

• Certified copy of Identity Document of yourself, your parents or legal guardians (If either of your parents is deceased, please provide a certified copy of the death certificate)
• If you and/or your parents and/or guardian are employed, for each a certified or official copy of a recent payslip or a letter of employment, not older than three months.
• If parents are employed by a company – salary/wage slips of both parents.
• If parents/guardian/spouse are unemployed, an official letter from the Department of Labour proving unemployment status.
• If parents/guardian receives income such as pension / grant / maintenance / rental / interest from investment, an official pension slip or bank statement copy.
• If parents/guardian are informal traders/hawkers, proof of income, bond statement and council rates accounts.
• If parents/guardian are earning commission, an IRP5, IT3 and IT12 (last 2 years).
• If parents/guardian/spouse own or are members of a CC / Pty (ltd) and / or sole proprietor: complete 2017 financial statements signed by members;  IT14 – Tax return for the business (last 2 years); IT12 – Tax return for the individual (last 2 years);  IT3(b) Income Tax Certificate from the Bank (last 2 years).

We acknowledge your present frustration. Be assured, however, that the University is doing its utmost to make good on a process that is largely beyond its control.

Student Access Working Group

Frequently Asked Questions: Changes to DHET funding for poor and working class students in public higher education institutions... 

The document on the right will explain the different categories for funding applications.

Nelson Mandela University offers various forms of bursaries and loans, including our scholar and student merit awards which reward top academic performance. We also administer funds from corporate donors and from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). NSFAS funding is especially aimed at assisting financially needy and academically deserving students.