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- Things has asked the Department of Basic Education to take measures against the “criminals” in its ranks, responsible for leaking papers.
- The representative student organization condemned Minister Angie Motshekga’s decision to rewrite two leaked matrix documents.
- Sadtu, the country’s largest teachers union, has threatened legal action against the Department of Basic Education and Umalusi.
The South African Student Congress (Things) has supported the threat of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) to take legal action against the Department of Basic Education and the educational quality assurance body Umalusi.
The threat comes after the decision of the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, that 12th graders rewrite two leaked exams.
Things national spokesperson Zithulele Ndlela said the decision was unfair to students who now “carry the burden of the department’s mistakes.”
“Exams are psychological. Many students were told that they had finished writing their exams and were now ready to spend time with family and go on vacation. Telling them that they should start studying again will have a psychological impact on them; rewriting them it will affect their performance, “Ndlela said.
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Sadtu planned to file an urgent court request on Monday to intercept the department’s decision, saying he believed the decision was unfair and premature because investigations into the leaks had not concluded.
“Based on the initial research, which has shown that the number of students who may have viewed the document is less than 200 out of the 390,000 who wrote the document, there is no basis for a national rewrite,” Sadtu said in a statement. on Sunday.
Ndela agreed and said the department first needed to do research on how many students saw the paper before writing.
“First we need to see a department analysis of how many students had access to the document. If only one percent viewed the document, why should the other 99% suffer?”
Things would support Sadtu’s action against the department, Ndela added.
“We condemn the decision of the Minister of Education in the strongest terms … What has happened to those who leaked the newspaper?
“This document did not reach the students as a Christmas gift from Santa.”
He said that while nothing can be done to reverse this situation, the department has struggled with the issue of leaked papers for years.
“This [not] creating mechanisms to address the problem. Rewriting does not address paper leakage and does not solve the problem. If the department has criminals, it must deal with those criminals. “
City Press reported that a law firm representing a group of parent companies also threatened to file an urgent injunction to prevent rewriting.
