The Information Regulator of South Africa has hit the Department of Basic Education with a R5 million fine for not upholding its last notice, which blocked the department from publishing the 2024 matric results in national papers.
The regulator issued an Infringement Notice to the department on Monday (23 December) in which it ordered the DBE to pay an administrative fine of R5 million following its failure to comply with the Enforcement Notice issued on 18 November 2024.
The regulator had issued the Enforcement Notice following the finding of the contravention of various sections of the POPIA by the DBE.
The Enforcement Notice had ordered the DBE to provide an undertaking “that it will not publish the results of the 2024 matriculants in the newspapers” within 31 days from the date on which the order was served.
It also ordered that the department “must not publish the results for the
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