News24 | ANALYSIS | Remeredzayi Gudyanga: SA’s matric pass rate illusion

News 24
Published: Jan 26, 2026 13:24:19 EAT   |  Sports

While South Africa celebrates record matric pass rates of 88%, schools are quietly steering thousands of learners away from mathematics and science subjects to protect statistics, creating a system that reproduces educational inequality by managing success through exclusion rather than improvement, writes Remeredzayi Gudyanga.