Court rules matric results will be published in the media

The high court in Pretoria has granted an application by matric learner Anlé Spies, lobby group AfriForum and Maroela Media to compel the department of basic education to have last year’s matric examination results published in newspapers.

According to the order, the basic education department will make the national senior certificate results available to be published on public media platforms, as well as at the schools the learners attended, as in previous years. However, there is one crucial difference: personal details, like the first and last names of the learners, may, however, not be published. Instead, learners’ results will be published only with their individual exam numbers.

“The results will be published and, as the judge made clear in interpreting the order, [they] will have to be made available to media houses. Which means that newspapers and online platforms will be able to publish those results, as had been done in the past,” said advocate Quintus Pelser, who represented the applicants.

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