Grade 12 pupils to get support through televised educational content initiative

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has launched Woza Matrics, a free-to-air television initiative aimed at supporting the matric pupils of 2020 following disruptions caused by Covid-19. 

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The 12-week Woza Matrics campaign will start on September 1, 2020 and will support grade 12 pupils in the build-up to their final matric exams by providing quality educational content. 

Subjects covered by Woza Matrics include maths, life sciences, geography, physical science, accounting, economics, maths literacy, English first additional language, history and business studies.

Woza Matrics will be broadcast on SABC 3, on all DStv packages and on Openview (Channel 122) from 8am – 10am and 1pm – 3pm, seven days a week. It will also be available for free on the DStv Now Catch up app.  

A wide-reaching communications campaign will ensure pupils, parents and teachers across the country know exactly where to find the subject and content they need each week. A link to support materials will also be made available on September 1, 2020.

While all pupils have lost school time, this is most acutely felt by grade 12s, where marks are important for career and university choices and where the content to be covered is fixed and externally examined.

Woza Matrics is led by the Department of Basic Education, assisted by the National Education Collaboration Trust and developed in collaboration with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Multichoice and eMedia Investments, as well as with a number of educational content providers including Digicampus, Mindset and Monyetla Trust, the Programme for Improved Learning Outcomes (PILO), and other educationalists.

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