Matriculants Told To Calm Down Amid Fear Of Mathematics Rewrite
A spokesperson for the Department of Basic Education, Elijah Mhlanga has since said that they are still mapping a way forward on how they will deal with yesterday’s leaked Mathematics Paper 2.
“We are really trying to find out how it happened. The incident occurred in some parts of Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, and Gauteng. We have to determine the extent of the leak before we can map our way forward on whether or not there will be a nationwide rewrite but at this juncture not everyone will rewrite the Paper because we haven’t heard anything from the Northern Cape, Free State or Eastern Cape provinces and they are some parts of Gauteng where they didn’t encounter such an incident. We are still investigating.
However, someone within the system should have undermined us. It should be at the storage facilities where it went wrong because no one has access except those who work within the vicinity. However, we have a contingency plan for this even though the exams are finishing on the 15th of December the matric results will still be out on time as scheduled,” said Mhlanga.
Already the Department of Basic Education is working hand in glove with the law enforcement agents in figuring out how the leak transpired and who was behind it.
Yesterday’s incident is not peculiar to the Department of Basic Education as in 2015 a Life Science Paper was leaked in Limpopo and in 2016 a Mathematics Paper in the same province.
More than 1 million people are sitting for this year’s Matric exams making it the largest sitting of Matric exams in the history of South Africa.
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