More provinces embroiled in matric paper leak
Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga warns that the penalty for examination offences is very serious.
"If they have found to have been complicit, it's no longer in our hands. They are going to be dealt with by the law."
Motshekga held a media briefing today on the ongoing National Senior Certificate exams in the wake of the leaked Maths Paper 2.
Initially, the department had said the paper which was written on Monday morning had leaked in Gauteng and Limpopo.
It now believes pupils in all other provinces except the Free State also had access to the exam.
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Motshekga says anyone found to have been in possession of the paper could face a three-year ban from writing matric exams.
She says it's upsetting because a great deal of money was invested into securing the exam papers.
"We invest a lot into protecting the papers and we thought we got it right.
"I do hope that the leak happened at the time when these learners were phoning to say we are working on the paper, we just received the paper, please us with the following problems. So it could bring us closer to say how do we have a leak in these modern times."
Motshekga assures that we put every safety measure in place.
