Thousands of University of the Free State students are in danger of being deregistered in two weeks if the student representative council fails to raise R10-million. The SRC is scrambling to avoid the university shutting its doors on 4,000 students who cannot afford their tuition fees.While the SRC is trying to buy time, the university is yet to extend the deregistration date, April 4.SRC president Lindokuhle Ntuli said no big sponsors had come on board to help the students ."We hope that we will be able to raise the R10-million," he said."It has been 22 years since democracy and it would be disheartening to see the thousands of students going home because they are unable to afford tuition."The SRC raised R1.2-million last year, which covered the registration fees of the 4000 students, but the difficulty now is keeping them in the system.The SRC has asked entertainers to assist in the fund-raising and will be hosting a music festival, gala dinner and golf day to raise money.HHP, Thandiswa Mazwai, DJ Lemonka and Mo'molemi are billed to perform at the festival.Other SRCs around the country continue to raise millions of rands to keep the doors of learning open for less fortunate students.SRCs at the universities of the Witwatersrand and Johannesburg have managed to save thousands of students from exclusion in the 2016 academic year.The "missing middle", students described as "too rich to be poor and too poor to be rich", have been the focus of the fund-raising drives.University of Johannesburg has an SRC trust fund,founded by students, to assist those unable to afford university tuition.At the beginning of this year the trust had R22-million in the bank and now has R32-million, raised to assist in paying for the accommodation and fees of 5,000 students...