The elegance of the 2022 matrix will hold its final exams towards the end of the month (October 25), facing the possibility of burden reduction and after countless disruptions dating back to March 2020, when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the first lockdown to involve the spread of covid-19.
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga visited students at a provincial prayer service in the Free State as part of the latest push to prepare students mentally and emotionally to write.
The minister said that the existing matrix elegance would have had to weather a typhoon in the last 3 years: “this has made them the most disadvantaged cohort of students. “
And with two weeks to go until exams begin, academics are facing the worst crisis of force in South Africa’s history, which has included up to 8 hours of load loss in recent months and a record number of days of power cuts.
“As an area, we will have to swim with the tide,” Motshekga said Sunday. “I can’t say that a sector is immune. ” However, the minister said the branch is in contact with the Department of Energy.
“When we write reviews, we actually talked a lot with the Ministry of Energy to say that at that time, if possible, we will simply suspend forced outages, but I can’t assure you that we will be able to completely eliminate forced outages. “Blackouts when there are any. Power cuts in the country. Then we will have to navigate our way as each one navigates in his own way.
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