With the clock ticking, and only nine days remaining before the start of the 2022

National Senior Certificate Examination, the Grade 12 learners throughout the province gathered in their respective schools to sign the Pledge of Good Conduct.

The MEC for Education, Mr Bonakele Majuba on Friday, October 21 visited Philip Ndimande Secondary School to observe the signing of the Pledge of Good Conduct ceremony by Grade 12 learners.

Four schools attended the ceremony, and they were the host school, Phillip Ndimande Secondary School, Zacheus Malaza Secondary School, F.H. Makhabela Secondary School and D.M. Matsaosele Secondary School.

The signing of the Pledge of Good Conduct follows the approval in 2013, by the Council of Education Ministers (CEM) that candidates registered to write the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination sign a pledge committing to comply with the Examination Code of Conduct.

All candidates and schools are required to convene a formal ceremony for the signing of the pledge by the candidates writing the examination on Friday, October 21.

The rationale for the pledge is to assist with the curbing and control of examination irregularities and is an attempt to adopt a more proactive rather than reactive approach to the reduction of examination irregularities.

MEC Majuba extended his appreciation to all the learners in the province for their dedication and hard work throughout the year.

He also acknowledged that it was not easy, but they pulled through against all odds.

He also indicated that 71 582 full-time candidates have registered to write the 2022 national examination senior certificate in the province and that the number is the largest in the history of writing such an examination.

“The number suggests that everyone must be lobbied to play a meaningful role towards ensuring a credible incident-free examination process as it happened in the past 12 years in our beloved province,” said Majuba.

He said his visit to the school which has performed fairly well in the past gives him pleasure.

The school obtained 94.1% in 2018, 90.7% in 2019 and in the year 2020 it registered 77.5% and last year the school obtained 82.4%.

He said the results confirm the potential of the school’s future results even under the difficult period of Covid-19 in the past and urged the learners to perform even much better.

He added to say that he was impressed with the performance of the other schools as well and thanked the management of the schools.

Majuba said the signing of the pledge marks the official start of the examination season and the signing binds them to the crucial course.

He reminded the learners that they were part of the 55 000 that have benefitted from the Department Ubuhlebuyeza e-learning programme and received tablets that helped them to access supplementary materials needed to ensure a 100% pass rate.

He had hoped that they had been used meaningfully for the examination.

Wishing them well, he said he was looking forward to handing over bursaries from the department and a brand-new car to one of them as a provincial top learner on January 20 next year.

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