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Nationwide, 45,000 matriculation test markers will mark 14 million deeds at 181 correction centers across the country. (Papi Morake, Gallo Images)
- At least 74 grade 12 test markers in the Eastern Cape had to be sent home after testing positive for Covid-19.
- The provincial education department said it will seek replacements for them before the start of marking on Thursday.
- The department has contracted a total of 5,323 markers to mark 131,000 12th grade scripts at 24 centers.
With two days until the national scoring for grade 12 exams to begin, the Eastern Cape education department has had to send 74 markers home after they tested positive for Covid-19.
This was announced by Education MEC Fundile Gade during an inspection at the Byletts Combined School grading center on the outskirts of East London on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Gade kick began his planned week-long visit to some of the province’s 24 tagging centers.
During the course of the markers’ arrival, there are a few who have identified themselves as positive and, of course, progressively, they had been advised to go home and thanked for the commitment they have displayed, but for the safety . of those found here and to observe the protocols of the health department, [markers] it had to be released, “he said.
The Eastern Cape Department of Education has contracted a total of 5,323 markers to mark 131,000 12th grade scripts at 24 centers.
Nationwide, 45,000 matriculation test markers will mark 14 million deeds at 181 correction centers across the country. The markup is expected to end on January 22 and the results of the matrices will be released on February 23.
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This comes as the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, published a list of Covid-19 protocols that will be implemented in the dial-up centers.
These include screening at the entrance of each marking center and placing those with Covid-19 symptoms in an isolation room.
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On the preparation of the marking centers, Gade said: “We have seen the top management of the centers and we are comfortable with the process, as well as the preparations and procedures.”
The director general of the National Organization of Professional Teachers of South Africa in the Eastern Cape, Loyiso Mbinda, said that so far, the union is satisfied with the Covid-19 protocols.
Gade’s spokesperson, Vuyiseka Mboxela, said the department will find replacements before the start of qualifying the papers on Thursday.
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