The DBE has lodged an application to set aside the notice issued by the IR regarding the publication of matric results in newspapers.
According to spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga, the department filed its papers at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Friday.
The Department of Basic Education has lodged an application to set aside the enforcement notice issued by the Information Regulator regarding the publication of matric results in newspapers. In its papers, the department argues that the publication of the matric examination results in its current format in the newspapers is not information that relates to an identifiable learner.
“The decision to serve the department with the enforcement notice is not in accordance with the law and/or involves an exercise of discretion by the Information Regulator that ought to have been exercised differently.”In January 2022, the organisation and other parties won a case against the department, where it was ordered to publish the matric results.
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