Alumni Night at the Opening of City Campus Annual Digital Festival 2017

Digifest's opening ceremony. 


The digital festival hosted by the faculty of Arts & Design is just around the corner with the opening night yet to kick off on the 6th of November.

Acting Director of Alumni Relations Zwakele Ngubane said, The Development and Alumni Relations office has decided to get involved in Digi fest by providing support to the festival organisers in order to establish a mutually beneficial relationship.

“We are providing financial support as part of our strategic objective of engaging our DUT community”, said Ngubane.

We will have an opportunity to share our fundraising initiatives at the festival for which we hope to garner support as well, Ngubane said.

“We will also be involved in raising funds for future Digi fests because fundraising for various worthwhile DUT projects is part of our mandate”, added Ngubane.

According to an article written on the skills portal, In order to qualify for NSFAS, your household income needs to be below R120 000 per year and, while this is great for the disadvantaged, the middle class is underserved by this system. Those whose households earn less than R600 000 annually are often unable to afford the fees.

The missing middle campaign is the vehicle used to raise funds for the bursary fund that is intended to assist students who are struggling to pay for their tuition fees, continued Ngubane.

“Last year we assisted 10 students. We hope to grow this and assist more and more students each year’, concluded Ngubane.

-Mongi Khanyile

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