EFF condemns the delayed release of 2022 matric results
12 January 2023
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) condemns the unprecedented delay in the release of final examination matriculant results for the year 2022. Inexplicably the results of matriculants are set to be released on the 20th of January 2023, a delay that has a ripple effect on the transition of learners to the post-secondary education and training sector, and affects planning by families who are unable to proceed with any logistical arrangements relating to their children's post-matriculant studies.
Year after year, the Department of Basic Education finds ways to exhibit incompetence when it relates to matriculants and the handling of the process in its entirety. If it is not scandals such as the leaking of examination papers which results in cheating, or appalling results in schools which perennially underperform with no intervention, it is this blatant failure to synchronise systems to ensure that results of learners are released before the academic year begins in Primary and High Schools.
The delay has an added impact on already financially hamstrung families, who have to manage the high-cost of living while also considering the costs of travel that relate to their children going to Universities, Universities of Technology and TVET Colleges'.
The futures of thousands of young people are on hold as they do not know whether they have qualified for the various streams of study the may have applied for, creating and added and unnecessary anxiety.