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Gauteng 2019
Matric awardees with Minister Angie Motshekga, MEC Panyaza Lesufi and Gauteng
Premier David Makhura.
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By Priya Ranchod
A proud moment for the community of Lenasia when Esha Bhoola from SBSM took 2nd place for Top Independent Schools learner and Al Aqsa School Ext. 10 took 1st place for Top Independent Schools at the Gauteng 2019 Matric Awards that was held on 8th January 2020, in Fairlands, Randburg.
Madam Hamida Moosa, the principal of Al Aqsa School Ext 10 – JHB South, was in complete shock and was shaking when she was called to the stage to accept 1st place for Gauteng Top Independent Schools, followed by Johannesburg Polytech Institute – JHB east and 3rd place – St Matthews Private Secondary School – JHB Central. While Bhoola took 2nd place for top Independent Schools, 1st place was Carl Donovan Smith, from Star School Pretoria and 3rd place Zeenat Ismail Casmoo, of Azaadville Muslim School.
Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi, shared a beautiful speech of his happiness towards the good results the learners and schools received. He was just disappointed by the drop in Gauteng 2019 results where he explained that the issue was due to a few schools in Eldorado Park and Kliptown.
Gauteng’s 87.2% pass rate for the class of 2019 may have been a stone’s throw away from the 90% target that the department had set, though the province had celebrated that out of the top 10 districts in the country, six were from the region.
The District performance was just an indicator that the Gauteng MEC for Education Lesufi, recognised as an achievement worth celebrating.
Lesufi added: “We might have not been number one as a province, but we are the number one province in everything when it comes to education.”
Gauteng as a province has continued to fare well and maintain its 80% threshold despite the 2019 results dropped by 0.7 percentage points, opening the way for Free State to lead with 88.4%.
“Even though the class of 2019 gave us an 87.2% pass, we are proud as a province because everything that is about quality assessment points to Gauteng,” said Lesufi adding that the province also recorded the highest number of bachelors passes in the country, with 43 494 students obtaining bachelor passes out of the 97 829 that wrote the national senior certificate exams.
“The highest contributor of bachelor passes in the country is Gauteng. We are not only contributing to pass marks of our children, but our children are also receiving bachelor passes and it is the highest in the history of our province,” Lesufi explained.
In the past, education experts and critics have frowned upon celebrating matric results without assessing the quality of the matric passes.
The department recorded an 89.2% pass rate in schools located in townships while non-township schools achieved 92.61%, an indication that equality gaps between systematically disadvantaged schools and those that are advantaged are steadily shrinking.
For the first time the province had no schools that performed below 40%.
In Lenasia and its surrounding areas the following results were achieved: Lenasia Secondary School - 99.3%, Lenz Public Secondary School - 92.6%, MH Joosub Secondary School 86.5%, Nirvana Secondary School - 80.3%, Topaz 71.5%, Trinity Secondary School - 88%, Lenasia South Secondary School - 91.7%, Zakariyya Park Combined School - 83%, Willowmead Secondary School - 74%, Southview 69%, Gibson 89% and Qualabotsha 59%. While Independent School Nurul Islam School of Excellence, Lenasia Muslim School and Al Aqsa School a total of 100% and SBSM 86.5%.
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| Educators of Al Aqsa School proudly holding their trophy and certificate that principal Appa Hamida Moosa received at Gauteng Matric Awards on 8th January 2020 in Fairlands, Randburg. |
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