Senior delegations from the basic education and public enterprises departments will hold urgent talks with Eskom CEO André de Ruyter about how load-shedding is affecting matric exams.
Granville Whittle, the basic education department’s acting director-general, told parliament on Tuesday during a briefing on exam readiness that the meeting is expected to take place very soon.
About 898,000 pupils are writing matric exams conducted by the department of basic education, the biggest assessment body. He said they were concerned as there was still a long way to go before the exams ended on December 7.
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