Senior delegations from the basic education and public enterprises departments will hold urgent talks with Eskom CEO André de Ruyter to discuss the negative impact of load-shedding on the matric exams.
Pupils wrote mathematics and religion studies on Monday and economics on Tuesday while Eskom implemented stage 4 load-shedding. Matrics will be writing business studies on Wednesday.
Whittle said that the department identified electricity supply as a risk to the National Senior Certificate exams and “we therefore had teams from the department and Eskom working together over the past few months to try to find some kind of resolution to the challenges we are facing”.
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