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By Zelda Venter 
13h ago
Pretoria – The Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, will hear an urgent request later this week to reverse Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s decision to have all matrix students rewrite the two leaked exams.
The civil rights organization AfriForum is helping four students to submit the rush application.
Several unions, including the Democratic Teachers Union of South Africa, also plan to challenge the minister’s decision.
Attorney Willie Spies, acting on behalf of the four students, said the attorneys will ask that each student who was not involved in the irregularity have their exams scored and the results released.
They want the minister to be prohibited from destroying the answer scripts in either of the two exams, pending any review proceedings regarding her decision to request a rewriting of the two documents. Motshekga announced Friday that tuition students had to rewrite the final exam on test 2 in math and test 2 in physical science.
Apparently, the minister had based her decision on an interim report in which some 195 students had seen the questionnaires.
Most of the students who gained access to the documents are members of a WhatsApp group of high achievers selected by the department itself for preferential treatment and support.
Natasha Venter, an educational rights advisor at AfriForum, said that rewriting the two exams would unfairly harm some 400,000 matrons who had written the exam honestly.
“The department should focus on the culprits. There are means to determine which students unfairly benefited from the leaked documents.
Research has shown that student scores on final exams can be determined with 93% accuracy by studying past scores. We cannot allow Motshekga to disadvantage honest students because the department’s systems were inadequate to prevent test leaks. “
Pretoria News
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