TRY, the beloved country. So now you can do your matric over two years. Why stop there? Let’s allow pupils to write the Grade 12 final examination, over six years — one subject per year. If the goal is to sink so low that it is impossible for anyone to fail, hey, make the exam as easy as possible. One subject in Grade 8, one in Grade 9 — you get the picture — and one after Grade 12. That way, everyone passes, we hope.This is what we’re good at as South Africans — we scrape the bottom of the barrel and then have the audacity to claim victory. What country with any self-respect celebrates its economy narrowly averting junk status? A more appropriate response would have been to lament the fact that we even got into that perilous situation. But we pride ourselves on our ignorance — “Look,” I have heard politicians excitedly proclaim, “In this country you can go to the top without a high school education!” True, so why bother?Do not for one moment believe that this pandering to our lowe...
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