Nica Richards
Motshekga made a decision earlier this month to have all matriculants who sat down for mathematics paper two and physical science paper two to rewrite their exams, after answers were leaked.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
Parties filed motions against Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, the National Examinations Irregularities Committee, and the Umalusi Council, the body for quality assurance. Sadtu’s motion included education MECs in all nine provinces.
The judgment has set aside the rewriting of maths paper two and physical science paper two.
Motshekga and the NEIC have been ordered to take “necessary steps to ensure that the examination answer scripts of those learners who have not been found to have been involved in irregularities pertaining to the examination of the above mentioned papers, including the individual applicants in these urgent applications, be marked in accordance with the management plan for the said examinations…”