9,300 Eastern Cape pupils have not passed a single grade before matric 

Ya you can thank the ANC for that. The ANC thought it was an insult to acknowledge facts. So instead of actually helping kids with learning issues, they chose to be woke and believe that schooling was just a piece of paper...hence the 30 % pass. You can see it with our former president not even having primary school... Schooling is seen as unimportant and the attitude towards academics is almost resented.

Well said and totally true!!!!

This silly system is churning out adults that are attuned to failing

​But this is what the ANC wants. Keep the population uneducated then they are dependent on the government. That way they will always vote for that particular government. A population that can't read and write, doesn't know what the government is doing and can't think for themselves. They can be manipulated.

This is the system in the UK. You progress according to your age and they better educated than SA children.

Jassis this comment is so stupid, I was mentally flash banged while reading it.

But these children are not catching up, that is the point! When these children are assessed they are failing. The repeated failures prove they have not caught up…

@@bevturner2258 Then the problem is not diagnosed correctly. The point being made here is that progression of pupils is not the real problem, there is something else at play.

@@itumelengseeco2844 Education is a difficult Department for sure. We now have a new Cabinet Minister in charge of Basic Education. I’m pinning my hopes on Siviwe Gwarube of the DA. She’s young, and hopefully she’ll be the breath of fresh air we need.

Sums up SA education: "in 2021, 1,575 unqualified and underqualified teachers were teaching in schools across the country." "only 55% of South African teachers performed at the same level as grade 4 children internationally" BEE employment and 30% education and 20% math requirements showing amazing results. 2014 DA found only 24% of matrics would pass on the older pass requirements. 5x50s 2x40s

Something else at play?-learners with low IQs are expected to perform exactly the same as everyone else,teachers are not properly equipped to teach,little or no qualified remedial teachers(wealthier communities can afford to send children to remedial classes, in poorer communities children receive little or no assistance) the teacher/pupil ratio is crazy(in some cases 1 teacher to 80 learners,)learners are not interested in learning,some are extremely undisciplined and disruptive,not enough text books so that each learner can have his own book,high absenteeism rate,most schools have no fully equipped media centres,no science labs,no computer rooms,many children attend school without having had breakfast or any full meals for that matter,teachers are demotivated because they get little or no support from the education department or from parents,many parents (not all)are apathetic re getting involved with their childrens schooling,to many teachers today teaching is a job not a calling.,the CAPS curriculum,the doing away with teachers training colleges which placed an emphasis on methodology rather than on acadamia(acadamia was important but methodology was also important),lack of teaching materials in most schools,learners not having basics to help them function in the classroom(pencils,pens,crayons rulers,glue,maths sets,pairs of scissors ,parents have the final say as to whether or not their child must repeat a yearWhen this hsppens year after year and the child does not receive early intervention re learning he will never catch up.A rather long list of "something else that is at play."All the best to our young,new minister of education who is expected to fix this mess ASAP by those who are against her because she is DA..(@@itumelengseeco2844