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Gauteng High Court rules that matric results should be published

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January 18, 2022
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Gauteng High Court rules that matric results should be published

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga

  • The Pretoria High Court rules that matric candidates results can be published in news media.
  • The Department of Basic Education says they will abide by the court order.
  • Matric results will be released on Thursday. 

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ruled that the Department of Basic Education should publish the matric results on media platforms.

The National Senior Certificate results will be released on Thursday. Judge Anthony Millar ruled in favour of Afriforum on Tuesday morning.

The organisation took the department to court after the latter announced they would no longer be publishing results on public platforms, saying doing so would violate the Protection of Personal Information Act.

AfriForum, Maroela Media and Anle Spies – a pupil from the Gereformeerde Skool Dirk Postma in Pretoria but is currently in Gqerberha until 28 January – brought the case against the department. In her founding affidavit, Spies said she wants to study agriculture at the University of Free State. 

“I am awaiting publication of the results of the matric examination, and I am, like all my fellow students, desperate to receive my results as soon as possible,” she said.

She said the release of the results was a week before she has to go to university for orientation.  She said this was dependent on her getting her results and sending them to the university. 

“I can just imagine that a huge number of the more than one million matriculants who wrote the matric exams last year are in a similar position than me in that they had moved or relocated to addresses far away from the schools that they attended when they sat for the matric exams.”

Spies said she wanted the results to be published without the pupils’ names, just exam numbers. She said publishing the results would not be going against POPIA because only she knows her examination number, 

She argued that the department’s sudden decision not to publish the results was a failure to balance the right to privacy with the right to information, freedom of expression – including the right to a free press and media.

Spies said she was unaware of a formal consultation process between the department and media house about the decision.

In her papers, Susan Lombaard, Maroela Media chief executive officer, said the platform had published the results for the last six years. Lombaard said the decision not to publish the results had an impact on the pupils, bursary funds, higher education institutions and others that market their work around the publication of the results. 

“They are now not only deprived from the opportunity to advertise their services to a focused market, but media institutions are also deprived of the opportunity to earn income from the advertising campaigns,” she said.

Millar ordered that the department publish the results “as was the practice in previous years,  concurrently with making available the results to the schools that had been attended by the learners.”

In his ruling,  Millar said while the education department has set up an online platform for pupils to check their results, it was not enough. 

“Not everyone has access to those resources, particularly those from more modest backgrounds and a single newspaper can be shared amongst many people in order to check their results,” he said.  

Millar said the publication of the results should not include the pupils’ names and surnames.

After the court hearing, AfriForum’s Willie Spies said: “We are glad that we were able to convince the judge and that the order was eventually granted. The results will be published, and as the judge made it clear in interpreting the order, it will have to be made available to the media houses. Which means newspapers will be able to publish and online platforms will be able to publish as used to be in the past.”

Basic Education department spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga said they would abide by the ruling.

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