Load shedding will not disrupt matric exams -Motshekga
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is confident load shedding will not disrupt the writing of the matric final exams.
The class of 2022 will write their first English paper on Monday.
Motshekga was speaking at Nellmapius Secondary School in Mamelodi to monitor the start of the National Senior Certificate final examination process in Tshwane on Monday.
Motshekga says natural light is used to write exams as the ones that are needed to be written using electricity are already done.
"We will use natural light even if electricity could go now, we will be able to write. Lights go during the day so; I do not expect loadshedding to affect us. Last week we were writing subjects that needed electricity and that is behind us now with those gone I don't see any problem we will us natural light."
Motshekga adds that matric candidates have to monitor their timetables in line with the load shedding schedule.
"With load shedding our lives get disrupted and what do we do we work around it. So, even in the evening when there is load shedding you cook earlier so that when it comes you would have cooked. Same thing with them, they will have to monitor their timetables and don't read when there is the two-hour load shedding, but they should rest and continue after the load shedding time.
"We do not want them to really emphasise the challenges that the have been faced with, they have to relax, accept the situation and work around it and do the best that they can."
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