As matrics brace for 2021 results, task team releases final report into 2020 leaked exam papers scandal

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With days to go before the release of the 2021 matric results, an investigation launched into the leaked 2020 question papers has found that the reluctance of implicated pupils to surrender their cellphones compromised the investigation.

The report stated that in hearings in another province, two groups of pupils who were not part of the TDP group admitted having had prior access to the maths paper 2 and physical science paper 2.

“It is a matter of concern to the NITT, as it is to the department and to Umalusi, that progress in following up the identified sources of the leaks by the Hawks seems to have been slow. There is evidence that a leak or leaks occurred at the government printer and at the printer contracted to print for the Gauteng department of education.

The report stated that the department “has what we believe to be incontrovertible evidence that one or more 2020 NSC examination question papers leaked from the Government Printing Works ”. Themba Daniel Shikwambana, 31, who was employed at a Johannesburg-based company contracted by the department of basic education to print the 2020 matric exam papers, was arrested on November 30 2020. He was granted bail of R1,000.

 

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