KZN OFFICIAL: NO REASON FOR STOPPING MATRIC IN SD

MAKHASA (SOUTH AFRICA) – A top education official in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa has given a hint that the contract for schools offering the matric syllabus in Swaziland could be extended beyond 2019.

This will surely be a relief to locals, who were sent into panic mode by media reports last year, which were to the effect that the department of Basic Education in South Africa would discontinue the matric syllabus offered by local schools as from next year.

Speaking to the media on the side-lines of the Umkhanyakude District Merit awards on Tuesday, where best performers in the 2017 Matric examination were awarded, the District Director Thanduyise Joseph Motsa, said there was ‘a great possibility’ that education officials of both countries would extend the contract beyond 2019.

“I see no reason why there would be no further contract because education is a continuous process. We can’t then put a full stop right at the middle of the process,” he told Swazi journalists.

He added that he was confident that the ministers in charge of the education portfolios in both countries would engage each other and extend the existing contract, which expires next year.

“I want to believe that another contract will be signed by the ministers. For now, the terms of the (current) contract expire by 2019. I don’t necessarily mean things will stop, it is just a term of the contract which ends (next year),” he added.

Guided

He stated that education officials in the province would be guided by the minister on how to handle the matter.
He further expressed his satisfaction with the working relationship he has with both the head teachers of schools offering matric in the country and the U-Tech centre, where pupils from the schools sit for their examination.

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