Ruling to be made on urgency of battle over matric results
The
Information Regulator will Wednesday learn the fate of its urgent application
to prevent the publishing of the 2024 matric results in newspapers.
The
High Court in Pretoria will hand down the judgement in the battle between the
IR and the Basic Education Department, which was heard on Tuesday.
A ruling on the urgency of the matter is expected.
However, the department maintains it intends to publish the results using matric exam numbers which it says are only known by the learners.
READ: Matric results: Judge questions urgency of case
AfriForum is one of the parties that have joined the case in support of
publicising the results.
Their legal counsel, Quintus Pelser, spoke in court yesterday.
"My lady, regarding the prejudice, I submit that the prejudice that may be
suffered if the applicant is correct is that the matrics will have their
information published next to their examination number, not their name.
“That, my lady, should I suggest is negligible, particularly so because the
applicant did not care to do some kind of census."
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