The FAKE PASS RATE: How government spin is DOOMING an entire generation to failure.
While ministers pat themselves on the back for a “record” 88% matric pass rate, they are HIDING a shocking reality: our future is being sabotaged. The pass rate for CRITICAL mathematics PLUMMETED to a dismal 64% this year, with science crawling at a pathetic 77%. This is NOT progress; this is a SYSTEMIC FAILURE being whitewashed by bureaucratic propaganda.
Science and Technology Minister Blade Nzimande had the AUDACITY to lecture that “you cannot have high-quality science with poor-quality education,” yet his own department PRESIDES over this catastrophic decline. His so-called “strengthened partnership” with Basic Education is a SHAM, a paper-thin agreement that has produced ZERO meaningful results for the students whose futures depend on these gateway subjects.
This is a DELIBERATE betrayal. In a world driven by AI, engineering, and technology, South Africa is deliberately crippling its youth by failing to teach them the fundamentals. The government DISTRIBUTES career pamphlets while classrooms lack competent teachers and basic resources. They sponsor science fairs for a select few while the MAJORITY are left in an educational wasteland.
Yershen Pillay of CHIETA stated the cold truth: “Talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not.” This isn’t an accident; it’s POLICY. The state is creating a permanent underclass, fit only for low-skilled labor, while the connected elite secure STEM futures for their own. The plummeting maths pass rate is a CANARY IN THE COAL MINE, signaling the collapse of our national potential.
Every smartphone, every innovation Nzimande cites, will be built by OTHER countries’ children, while ours are left behind, holding worthless certificates and empty promises. The question is no longer if the system is broken, but who BENEFITS from keeping it that way. The future has been cancelled, and your children are the casualty.
Author: Kayitsi.com
