DBE fined R5m for failing to comply with enforcement notice on publishing of matric results
The enforcement notice, issued on 18 November, ordered the department to give a written undertaking that it will not publish the results in the media.
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CAPE TOWN - The Basic Education Department says it's not worried about the fine issued to it by the Information Regulator for the ongoing privacy saga related to the 2024 matric results.
The department has been slapped with a R5 million fine for failing to comply with November's enforcement notice, blocking it from publishing the matric results in newspapers.
The enforcement notice, issued on 18 November, ordered the department to give a written undertaking that it will not publish the results in the media.
This was meant to be made within 31 days from the date the order was served.
The deadline for the department to provide an undertaking that it would not publish the matric results in newspapers as ordered was 19 December.
The regulator said it had not received any communication from the department in this regard, and that’s why it issued the fine.
But the department's Elijah Mhlanga said they'd filed an appeal application in court before on 13 December before the deadline.
"We followed all the processes and procedures through the State Attorney, we filed our papers within the given minimum period for doing so and that our papers are firmly in the courts."
Mhlanga said they would be going ahead with the publication of matric results in the media.