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Johnathan Paoli

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi criticized the province’s failure to achieve a complete 90% matric pass rate, and said he will withhold Gauteng Education and Youth Development MEC Matome Chiloane’ s performance bonus.

The premier was talking at the release of Gauteng’s class of 2023 results at the Microsoft Corporate Office in Bryanston, Johannesburg on Friday and confirmed that the performance agreement with Chiloane was that the province should achieve a 90% pass rate.

But Gauteng’s class of 2023 achieved a pass rate of 85,4%, a 0,95% and improvement compared to the class of 2022’s 84,4%. But still short of the 90% that would have seen Chiloane get a bonus.

The class of 2023 candidates comprised 132,570 full-time and 59,094 part-time candidates, with full-time candidates including 7,197 candidates, who progressed from Grade 11 in 2022 to Grade 12 in 2023, comparable to the 9,125 progressed candidates, who sat for