The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has achieved a remarkable milestone, celebrating an impressive 94.4% pass rate in the 2025 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations among offender learners, significantly surpassing the national average of 88%. The results were unveiled on Friday during a poignant awards ceremony held at the Goodwood Read more
Rikus Kylander, the learner who went missing while snorkelling off the coast of Mozambique, achieved five distinctions in his 2025 NSC exams. Noordheuwel High School has announced that Rikus Kylander, the 18-year-old learner who went missing while snorkelling off the coast of Mozambique, achieved five distinctions in his 2025 National Read more
The class of 2025 has achieved an overall pass rate of 88% for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations, with KwaZulu-Natal being the top province. This is a slight improvement from the 2024 cohort, which achieved 87.3%, and 82.9% in 2023. ALSO READ | Takunda Muchweni among the matric top achievers Read more
Takunda Muchweni, a learner from Jan Kriel School in Kuils River is being celebrated and acknowledged as one of the top learner’s in the country for the class of 2025. Hours before the announcement of the official release of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) results, some of the country’s top Read more
KZN top achiever, Simesihle Khuzwayo, a learner from the King Bhekuzulu College in Nongoma, her health challenges required her to dig even deeper to catch up with her schoolwork, after missing a part of her academic calendar. “During my matric year, I felt sick and missed most of my Winter Read more
Prison learners have proved education can happen anywhere, with more than 96% passing their matric exams. While other inmates might have been lazing around inside their dungeons doing nothing, matric learners were busy burning the midnight oil studying hard for their exams. Out of 171 prisoners who wrote matric at Read more
Ntombenhle Mashaba has shown that hard work and resolve can triumph over obstacles. The 26-year-old Ntombenhle from KZN has finally succeeded in her goal to pass matric with one distinction after failing twice. But her journey wasn’t easy. She first sat for the matric exams in 2018 but failed. She Read more