Nearly 900,000 students will sit for their matric final exam from Monday, confirmed education minister Siviwe Gwarube.
Nearly 900,000 students will sit for their matric final exam from Monday.The Department of Basic Education has said that it has been reassured by power utility Eskom and municipalities that load reduction will be suspended during the week of matric exams where learners will write computer-based subjects.“There was a meeting between the department and Eskom. Now we have the challenge of load reduction, not load shedding. Eskom said there will be no load shedding, as there is no load shedding .
“But we encourage provinces to enter into discussions with municipalities because municipalities are the ones who are now embarking on this load reduction.“The municipalities and the South African Local Government Association promised that exams would run, even though we know there are those people who will want to switch off schools because of exams,” deputy minister Makgabo Reginah Mhaule said.
70 part-time monitors have been hired to oversee high-risk centres to “prevent irregularities like group coping or leaking of exams”, saidGwarube told communities to give matrics “the support they require”. “Protesting is a democratically protected right but our centres and schools are national assets. Over 800,000 candidates will have this one opportunity that can change the course of their lives.
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