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By Se-Anne Rall 
3h ago
Durban – Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and the nine provincial MECs, as well as senior department officials, were locked in a meeting to discuss how a 12th grade science test was leaked on Monday, just hours before the Students will take the exam.
TimesLive reported that screenshots of the science test question document were leaked on a WhatsApp group just hours before the start of the test.
A department spokesperson declined to comment with IOL, adding that a statement will be released after the meeting.
But Elijah Mhlanga, a spokesman for the department, told a media group on WhatsApp: “At the moment, however, the minister is still chairing a meeting with the MECs to discuss this very issue, so until the meeting is over there is no there will be statements to the media from us. “
The reported leak of the science test paper comes just a week after math essays 1 and 2 were leaked.
According to a report from the Daily News, math test 1 was allegedly leaked the day before the test date.
Many pupils at a KZN school on the south coast apparently accessed the newspaper through a chat group.
A source from the school claimed that the students still took the exam even though the leak was reported to the school administration.
Meanwhile, the district attorney has asked the department to answer for how the math papers were leaked.
DA spokesperson on education Nomsa Marchesi said the leak has cast a shadow over the integrity of the tuition examination process.
“To make sure the rest of the exams are blameless, we need to know how this leak originated to avoid similar leaks in the future,” he said.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that other provinces, including Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape, North West, Western Cape, Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, have also been affected by the leak, in addition to the leaks initially reported in Gauteng and Limpopo.
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