All lower quintile schools in the Western Cape improved their matric performance, Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schäfer said on Wednesday. They were still analysing the numbers, but were happy with the various improvements. The province had the highest matric pass rate in the country, at 84.7%. Public schools are[…]
Two people were arrested after customs officials confiscated heroin and abalone at the Beitbridge border post and Cape Town International Airport, Sars said on Wednesday. At Cape Town International Airport, airline staff tipped customs officials off about a consignment in a cargo shed, spokesperson Sandile Memela said. It turned out[…]
Those behind the theft of millions in foreign currency from the State Security Agency in Pretoria knew exactly what they were doing, the Hawks said on Wednesday. “Whether it’s an inside job or not is a matter that we are also looking into,” spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said. It was[…]
The number of so-called “progressed learners” pushed down the matric pass rate for 2015, Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday. She was, however, quick to defend the pupils indicating they were not the only reason there was a decrease. Motshekga announced on Tuesday that the national pass[…]
The Western Cape was the best performing province in the 2015 National Senior Certificate exams with an 84.7% pass rate. Gauteng was close on its heels with an 84.2% pass rate. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced the results in Midrand on Tuesday night. The Free State was the third-best[…]
Thousands of matrics throughout the country will know their individual results on Wednesday. All results, except those for Western Cape, would go live on the department’s website. Schools in all provinces, except the Western Cape, would open at 08:00 for pupils to fetch results and collect their National Senior Certificate,[…]
The international relations department on Tuesday denied claims by the Democratic Alliance that an official at the South African embassy in Norway had been arrested for drunken driving. An embassy official was involved in a car accident on Sunday and was hospitalised, spokesperson Nelson Kgwete said. “The accident is now[…]
Baker, bicycle repairer, tattoo artist – these are some of the career opportunities available for the next generation of matrics not planning on going to university. “Matric is not everything” said Christina Watson, CEO of educational publisher Via Afrika. “Years ago, the thing was if you had a matric, you[…]
The South African Human Rights Commission has pledged to investigate all racism-related complaints, regardless of the perpetrator’s race. This after a number of people on Facebook and Twitter on Monday and Tuesday vowed to take action against “all white people”, after KwaZulu-Natal estate agent Penny Sparrow compared black people to[…]
Pupils in the eight provinces will be able to view their results and collect their matric certificates at school from 08:00 on Wednesday morning. Matric exam quality assurer, Umalusi, has already warned that the national pass rate will be lower than the 75.8% for the class of 2014. However, even[…]
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