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South African matrics who have taken the Department of Education to court over last week’s announcement that two leaked exams would now be rewritten, say they simply don’t have it in them to perform at the level they would have been performing at last month. “My classmates and I don’t have the mental and emotional capacity to pick ourselves up, after this long year, with the limited time available to reach the same level of preparedness,” 18-year-old Unami Bhembe said in papers filed in the North Gauteng High Court this week. Last Friday, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced mathematics...