Education lobby group Equal Education (EE) has slammed the country’s “preoccupation” with matric results‚ saying the focus should rather be put on primary school.

Describing Wednesday’s official release of the results by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga as an “annual shindig”‚ the organisation said the pass rate was a “superficial and misleading indicator of public education quality.”

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