Matric cheating: Pupils to write supplementary exams

A total of 2089 KwaZulu-Natal pupils and 778 Eastern Cape pupils have been implicated.

 

Basic Education Department spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga says pupils will only be allowed to write the supplementary exams if they come forward and confess. 

 

"We urge those matriculants who were implicated and who we have evidence to come forward, confess and give us information. We will then arrange for them to write the supplementary exams," he says. 

 

Supplementary exams are set to take place between Monday 16 February and Tuesday 24 March.

 

The results are expected to be released on Thursday 30 April. 

 

Pupils will not be expected to re-write all subjects, but rather only the subjects in which they were accused of cheating.

 

The department is preparing for hearings where pupils will have the opportunity to give their version of events. 

 

Mhlanga says pupils coming forward precludes the need for a hearing.

 

Teachers who have been implicated will have a separate hearing, he adds. 

 

In the North West, 22 pupils have been banned from writing matric exams for three years. 

 

In Mpumalanga, the three schools implicated in the group cheating scheme have been cleared of wrongdoing, while in the Western Cape a principle has been suspended. 

 

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