Rogue Education Dept Brazenly Plots InfoReg Revolt Before Explosive Court Showdown

THE GOVERNMENT IS OPENLY DEFYING THE LAW, putting the private data of nearly ONE MILLION South African youth at RISK. In a shocking act of defiance, the Department of Basic Education has announced it will PUBLISH matric results in newspapers next Tuesday, IGNORING a direct enforcement order from the nation’s official privacy watchdog. This is an UNPRECEDENTED constitutional crisis where one state body is BRAZENLY disobeying another, tearing up the rulebook on YOUR child’s privacy.

The Information Regulator is screaming that this act ILLEGALLY exposes learners, slamming the DBE’s so-called “pseudonymised” data as a DANGEROUS SHAM that fails to protect identities. Yet, the Department plunges ahead, declaring it is “legally obliged” to publish—a statement that legal experts are calling a BLATANT LIE designed to perpetuate a tradition of public shaming and celebration. This isn’t about accessibility; it’s about CONTROL and a chilling disregard for consent.

While the Regulator fights a desperate court battle, the DBE is exploiting a legal loophole to trample on the rights of children. Their data—their futures—are being treated as PUBLIC PROPERTY for media consumption. This flagrant power grab reveals a terrifying truth: the authorities believe your privacy is NEGOTIABLE. As the two arms of the state wage war, the personal information of an entire generation hangs in the balance, sacrificed on the altar of bureaucratic convenience and outdated tradition. When the government itself becomes the lawbreaker, what remains of our rights is just an illusion.