The matric class of 2022 will sit for their final examinations towards the end of the month (25 October), faced with the prospect of load shedding, and following countless disruptions dating back to March 2020, when South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the country’s first lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19.
Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga has visited learners in a provincial prayer service in the Free State as part of the last push to get students mentally and emotionally prepared to write.
The minister said that the current matric class would have had to go through a storm over the last three years – “it made them the most disadvantaged cohort of learners”.
The impact of disrupted education following the Covid-19 outbreak was devastating,…