{"id":94046,"date":"2025-12-10T18:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:04:28","slug":"department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach","title":{"rendered":"Department Of Education Confirms Matric Marking Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Department of Basic Education has confirmed the discovery of an integrity breach that occurred during the marking process of the matric final exam papers.<\/p>\n<p>The infraction was identified through the department\u2019s internal quality control and monitoring processes.<\/p>\n<p>Department spokesperson Terrence Khala confirmed that Minister Siviwe Gwarube will address the public and media regarding the incident and the measures to be implemented to safeguard the integrity of the 2025 examinations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Minister of Basic Education, Ms Siviwe Gwarube, will tomorrow, Thursday 11 December, address members of the media at an urgent briefing following the identification of an examination breach during the marking process of the 2025 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. The Department of Basic Education has confirmed the discovery of an integrity breach that occurred during the marking process of the matric final exam papers. The infraction was identified through the department\u2019s internal quality control and monitoring processes. Department spokesperson Terrence Khala confirmed that Minister Siviwe Gwarube will address the public and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":94045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-94046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Department Of Education Confirms Matric Marking Breach - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Department of Basic Education has confirmed the discovery of an integrity breach that occurred during the marking pr ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Department Of Education Confirms Matric Marking Breach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department of Basic Education has confirmed the discovery of an integrity breach that occurred during the marking pr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-10T18:48:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-10T19:04:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1765380839.106965.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Department Of Education Confirms Matric Marking Breach\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-10T18:48:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-10T19:04:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach\"},\"wordCount\":128,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1765380839.106965.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/department-of-education-confirms-matric-marking-breach\",\"name\":\"Department Of Education Confirms Matric Marking Breach - 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