SABC News reports that the National Teacher's Union (Natu) and the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) have called on the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to tighten up the monitoring of matric examinations.  

Last week, the SA Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training (Umalusi) announced that four provinces, including KZN, had been implicated in group copying.  Natu Deputy President, Alan Thompson, said:  “We are not happy with the manner that they have utilised to address the issue of group copying  …  the unfortunate thing about this, is that it affects even the learners that were never part of any form of group copying but their schools were implicated.”  Meanwhile, Sadtu’s Deputy Provincial Secretary, Bheki Shandu, said the DBE should conduct thorough investigations and take drastic steps against offenders.

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