The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has vowed to challenge the rewriting of matric exams in court.
The teachers’ union says it will file an urgent court application on Monday to challenge the decision by the Department of Basic Education to rewrite matric exams.
The scheduled rewrite follows the leaks of two papers – Physical Science and Mathematics.
Sadtu has labelled the decision to have all learners doing mathematics and physical science to rewrite as irrational, unfair and premature because the investigation has not been concluded.
The union said based on the initial investigation which has shown that the number of learners who may have seen the paper were less than 200 out of the 390 000 who wrote the paper, there is no basis for a national rewrite.
Preparing for the 2020 matric examinations was not easy under the Covid-19 conditions and the learners’ mental health and readiness
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