Angie Motshekga announced the results in a live broadcast earlier this evening and said the improved passes showed that the public education was heading in the right direction. She added that the pass rates are “a manifestation of improvements occurring at all levels of the schooling system.”
A total of 787,717 candidates entered for the November 2019 NSC examination. This number was made up of 616,754 full time and 170,963 part-time candidates.
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“We’ve got a very big system. We have more than 12 million learners in more than 26,000 schools. What is gratifying is that South African parents, rich and poor, continue to have confidence in the public school system because of your performance,” said Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
Pass rates according to province
The Free State is the leading province at 88.4%, an improvement of 0.9% from 2018.
Gauteng achieved 87.2%, a 0.7% decline from 2018.
North West achieved 86.8%, an improvement of 5.6% from 2018.
The Western Cape achieved 82.3%, a 0.8% improvement from 2018.
KwaZulu-Natal achieved 81.3%, an improvement of 5.1% from 2018.
Mpumalanga achieved 80.3%, a 1.4% improvement from 2018.
The Eastern Cape and Northern Cape tied at seventh, with both achieving 76.5%. The pass rate in the Eastern Cape improved by 5.9%, making it the most improved province, while the Northern Cape improved by 3.2% from 2018.
Limpopo achieved a pass rate of 73.2%, representing an improvement of 3.8% from 2018.
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