BL Premium reports that the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) says in a court application that the decision by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to order matric pupils to rewrite two leaked matric examination papers is unlawful and must be interdicted.  

The union wants the decision to be reviewed and set aside on the basis of illegality.  It also wants the court to hear argument on why an interdict on withholding the outcome of results of innocent pupils should not be made final.  The department ordered a rewrite on Tuesday and Thursday next week of the second mathematics and physical science exam papers after the papers were leaked and seen by 195 pupils.  According to Mugwena Maluleke, general secretary of Sadtu, exam papers had been leaked in the past, but rewrites were not ordered and the culprits were merely dealt with.  Maluleke said there was no reason for the DBE not to have taken the same route on this leak.  Sadtu’s court application will be heard on Thursday with that of four matric pupils backed by lobby group AfriForum, Maluleke indicated.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Claudi Mailovich at BusinessLive

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