Deputy minister of basic education Makgabo Reginah Mhaule attended a church service on Sunday ahead of the matric exams which start soon and urged pupils to study hard.
Mhaule led a delegation from the provincial education department at a prayer service at the Ebenezer evangelical church in KwaLubisi in Pongola, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, where a coal-carrying truck recently ploughed into a vehicle transporting schoolchildren.
She told matric pupils there was no magic wand to ensure successful exams.
Matric exams start on October 31, when pupils write their first English paper.