THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE: SOUTH AFRICA’S FUTURE IS BEING FAILED IN GRADE 1
A national crisis is unfolding in plain sight. While officials celebrate an 88% matric pass rate, the TRUTH is far more terrifying. The maths pass rate has PLUMMETED. Distinctions have been HALVED. This isn’t an accident—it’s a SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE that starts with our youngest children.
Look at the devastating photo of Minister Siviwe Gwarube announcing these results. The numbers behind her tell the real story: a maths pass rate crashing from 69% to 64%. A staggering drop from 9,752 distinctions to just 4,897. Only 34% of matrics even DARED to take pure maths.
Experts are sounding the alarm with shocking clarity. “What you do in grade 12 is a compilation of what you do in grade 1,” warns Professor Elizabeth Henning. The damage is done a DECADE before the final exam. Kat Yassim from UJ states bluntly that last-minute fixes are useless against years of accumulated failure.
WHO PAYS THE PRICE? The report reveals the brutal reality: the poorest students are being slaughtered. High-level maths achievers fell by 28% in the poorest schools, compared to 18% in richer ones. Limpopo and the Eastern Cape saw collapses of over 30%. This is how inequality is ENGINEERED.
While the minister talks of “structural challenges” and future plans, the consequences are NOW. Rise Mzansi’s Makashule Gana exposes our shocking engineer-to-people ratio. ActionSA’s Lerato Ngobeni rips off the mask, showing the real pass rate is a horrifying 57.7% when you count all the kids who vanished from the system.
This is a silent war on our economic future. Investec’s Osagyefo Mazwai warns we are entrenching mass unemployment and killing growth. The pipeline for engineers, doctors, and scientists is being DESTROYED before it even starts.
The system isn’t failing. It’s producing exactly what it was designed to: a generation unprepared for the future, while those in power pose for photos and celebrate empty victories.
They knew this was coming. They watched the foundation crack for twelve years, and now they’re shocked the house is falling down.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
