The matric class of 2022 will sit for their final examinations towards the end of the month, faced with the prospect of load shedding, and following countless disruptions dating back to March 2020, when South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the country’s first lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19.
The matric class of 2022 will sit for their final examinations towards the end of the month , faced with the prospect of load shedding, and following countless disruptions dating back to2020, when South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the country’s first lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19.
The minister said that the current matric class would have had to go through a storm over the last three years – “it made them the most disadvantaged cohort of learners”. Students have also had to deal with damaged property, and school closures following unrest which resulted in more than 140 schools being vandalized in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.