South Africa: Member of the Executive Council (MEC) David Maynier urges candidates to celebrate responsibly during matric rage events

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Matric rage events will kick off in the Western Cape and other provinces this weekend, and we urge all of our candidates to celebrate safely and responsibly this year.

While 44 039 candidates still need to write Afrikaans Paper 3 on Friday, as well as a number of smaller exams that will be written next week, two large matric rage events will take place in Plettenberg Bay and Ballito this weekend.

We are pleased that large gatherings can now take place again, as tourism is a major contributor to our provincial economy, and coming together is an important part of growing up and acknowledging the next stage in our candidates’ lives. For the past two years, the focus has been on the risk of Covid-19 super-spreader events, after large clusters of cases occurred during such…

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