Layani Mkansi thought he would have the world at his feet one day after bagging five distinctions in the matric exams in 2021. But the 20-year-old, who would have qualified for medicine or engineering at university cannot enroll because he does not have an identity document.
I’m guessing the Holy Spirit made its way through the fibre network and wormed itself into Mam’ Angie’s files, blew on all those Fs and turned them into As overnight.
The percentage of pupils from the poorest schools achieving a bachelor’s increased from 61% in 2021 to 64.4% while bachelor passes produced by pupils from affluent schools dropped from 38.2% to 35.6% over the same period.
Unthinkable! This year, for the first time in history, the new school year would’ve started while the outgoing matriculants still waited for their results