'What makes 2024 different than 2023, 2022?' asks judge in IR's challenge of matric results publication
The Information Regulator has hauled the Department of Basic Education before the Gauteng High Court over its insistence to continue with the tradition.
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JOHANNESBURG - The issue of urgency in the Information Regulator’s legal challenge regarding the publication of the 2024 National Senior Certificate (NSC) results is before the court.
The regulator has hauled the Department of Basic Education before the Gauteng High Court over its insistence to continue with the tradition.
However, Judge Ronel Tolmay has taken issue with the regulator’s urgent application.
In 2022, the Gauteng High Court handed down an order that compelled the Department of Education to publish the results of the NSC examinations.
The matric results have been published since.
This is what Tolmay had to say to the counsel: “The matric results were published. There was the initial court order of 2022 so in 2022 and 2023, the matric results were published. Your client was well aware that the matrics write matric exams in the last part of the year so what makes this year different than 22 and 23? Why is it now urgent?”
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