Durban - The Young Communist League (YCL) intends
marching on provincial education department offices next week to demand that it
release matric results that have been withheld while allegations of mass
copying are investigated.
At a rally in the Durban city hall, the YCL’s provincial
secretary Justice Manana said: “We will fill eThekwini. We want those matric
results released.”
The results of an estimated 2 800 matriculants who sat
exams last year have been withheld while the National Department of Basic
Education investigates allegations of mass cheating.
Earlier this week department spokesperson Elija Mhlanga
announced that the hearings into the allegations were expected to be completed
by the end of this month.
He said that some
of the hearing had been marred by pupils protesting with officials
investigating the cheating being attacked.
Manana did not provide further details of the
planned YCL protest march, but said that it was unacceptable that matriculants
were effectively unemployed because they had no results and could not proceed
with further studies.
