By Amy Musgrave
President Cyril Ramaphosa has commended the matric Class of 2024 for multiple achievements, including getting the highest pass rate in the history of the country.
The national pass rate for the National Senior Certificate increased from 82.9% in 2023 to 87.3% last year. And nearly half of the learners who wrote the exams received a Bachelor pass, while almost 320,000 distinctions were obtained.
“The achievements of the Class of 2024 are a proud contribution to and evidence of our progress as a nation during 30 years of freedom and democracy,” Ramaphosa said in a statement.
“These results reinforce our resolute development of our nation’s most valuable resource, our young people. They also provide proof that we are undoing apartheid’s planned legacy of intergenerational indignity, disadvantage and poverty for the majority of South Africans.”
The president said that the results demonstrated the agency, resilience and pride of the
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