The Department of Basic Education is pleased that the impasse at Malamulele in Limpopo has finally been resolved. Schools in the area will now reopen for the first time in 2015 and allow learning and teaching to commence in the hundred and forty (140) schools located in the affected region.
The Provincial Department of Education and the Department of Basic Education will work together to ensure that a catch up plan is implemented to try recover the lost time. Education services were disrupted in the area due to community protests, resulting in four (4) and half weeks of stoppage in learning and teaching.
The department will ensure that the four schools that were burnt during the protests are repaired and will move swiftly to assist the 2014 matriculants wishing to sit for the supplementary exams which commenced yesterday.
There are more than three hundred (300) candidates in Malamulele who qualified to write the 2015 supplementary examinations.
The department had already established that no candidates had registered to write Computer Applications Technology or any of the language subjects written on the first day. Our records also indicate that there are no candidates registered to write the subject offered on the second day. There are, however, ten (10) candidates who have registered to sit for exams on the third day.
Question papers have already been delivered to the district office and these would reach all the schools as per the examinations schedule and management plan.
We urge all learners in the Malamulele area that qualify for the supplementary exams to report to the relevant circuit office, district office or school to confirm their registration for the exams. The department will ensure that all the learners that qualify in the affected district are given an opportunity to write the examinations.
Enquiries:
Elijah Mhlanga
Cell: 083 580 8275
