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By Sne Masuku 
11h ago
Durban – The Department of Basic Education said it cannot tell quality insurer Umalusi about the extent of the license plate leaks because some of the cell phone numbers used in the WhatsApp chat group where the documents were distributed were not they were registered.
The general director of Basic Education, Mathanzima Mweli, said the problem was that the department only had access to 71 of the 195 cell phone numbers used in the chat group and it became difficult to trace the owners of those numbers.
Last Friday, the Pretoria Superior Court ruled against the department’s decision that all tuition students rewrite Math Paper 2 and Physical Science Paper 2.
This was after several organizations representing tuition students and the Democratic Teachers Union of South Africa (Sadtu) filed an urgent application against the department imposing a rewrite of the two leaked documents.
Mweli said the department would not challenge the entire court ruling, but suspected it was difficult for the court to apply its mind to all aspects of the cases, let alone read all the submissions in such a short time.
“The difficulty of the trial is that it has plunged the education department sector into an unprecedented crisis. As we said in our response documents, we were unable to determine the extent of the leak and this makes it difficult to anticipate what Umalusi’s statement will be on the matter because when we present our report we will be saying what we have been saying all along, that the leak it is much broader than we had initially thought. ”
Mweli said they also established that the source of the leak was not only the printing company in Gauteng province, but also the government printers. “So the whole physical science article was leaked and turned up at a school in Tembisa.”
“Because the extent of the leaks could not be determined, we cannot tell Umalusi about the extent of the leaks for these two papers, unlike before, when we could limit the leak and have the entire district or circuit rewrite it. , this time we have The court prevented a new wording that could have been a logical remedy to deal with this matter.
“If you don’t know the extent of the leak, then the logical remedy is a rewrite, but if you know the extent of the leak, limit the rewrite or block the results of the students involved. ”
“In this case, we do not know the extent of the leak, and there will not be a rewrite and, as a result, the credibility and integrity, reliability and fairness of the results are at stake.”
Mweli said it was unfair to the 2020 matrix class when the department’s analysis indicated that this class could perform better than the previous year and having this blemish on its results was unfair.
Umalusi spokesman Lucky Ditaunyane said that while they were equally disappointed in the court’s ruling, they respected the court’s decision.
“We will continue to support relevant structures in future investigations. At this time, Umalusi cannot anticipate the outcome of its own processes regarding the approval of the results of the 2020 Senior National Certificate because the council needs to implement all its quality control. processes before a final decision can be made on the credibility and integrity of the reviews. “
Umalusi is expected to announce his report on the national exams on February 15.
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