LISTEN: Basic Education says load shedding won’t impact matric exams
The Department of Basic Education says it has contingency plans in place to ensure the latest bout of rolling blackouts won’t impact the matric exams.
Grade 12 pupils are in the process of writing National Senior Certificate exams.
Eskom has implemented stage 4 load shedding until at least Friday.
The department’s spokesperson Hope Mokgatlhe says there's a plan B should load shedding disrupt exams.
“What we have said as the department and we always say so that the nation and the parents can be at ease, is that if it happens that learners cannot write because of a power outage, we have backup papers. We are talking about grade 12 here, in fact, all grades that are writing exams now- we have backup papers all the time.
“So we want the nation and parents to know that as the department, our plan B is that if it happens that learners cannot write because of something we cannot control like a power outage, they will write at another time.
“We will have a backup paper so they will not be disadvantaged because as the department and as the government we work together knowing that there are things that we cannot really foresee.”
Listen to Hope Mokgatlhe below:
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