{"id":29259,"date":"2019-02-12T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/sa\/?p=29259"},"modified":"2019-02-11T19:03:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:03:39","slug":"aka-helps-university-students-in-casting-a-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/sa\/aka-helps-university-students-in-casting-a-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"AKA helps university students in casting a spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from the University of Wits staged a campus shut down. This is after a number of NSFAS applications were rejected by the State funding agency. AKA thus took it upon himself to help them out.<\/p>\n<p>He has now cast a spotlight to their problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve been following the saga unfolding at WITS and I feel like something needs to be done for these kids. 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