{"id":13454,"date":"2025-10-20T09:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sadtu-criticises-drop-of-key-subjects-for-pass-rates\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:24","slug":"sadtu-criticises-drop-of-key-subjects-for-pass-rates","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sadtu-criticises-drop-of-key-subjects-for-pass-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"SADTU criticises drop of key subjects for pass rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">The South African Democratic Teachers\u2019 Union (SADTU) says competition for the best matric pass rate among provinces has led to the abandonment of critical subjects like Mathematics and Physical Science.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The union\u2019s comment comes on the eve of the start of the National Senior Certificate Examinations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>About 903 561 full-time and part-time scholars are expected to sit down for the exams. SADTU National Spokesperson Nomusa Cembi says, \u201cWe encourage students to go for those critical subjects such as mathematics because those subjects open more doors for them and we are concerned that some provinces are abandoning critical subjects such as Mathematics, Physical Science, Accounting and Economics and are, instead opting for Maths Literacy in order to increase the number of learners passing and to look good when results are announced,\u201d says Cembi.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>She says this is not a contest among provinces.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe urge all provinces to strive to ensure that learners receive a quality national senior certificate that has a subject that can take learners to higher levels of education and that can open more doors for them once they have completed matric,\u201d she adds.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13455,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13454","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The union\u2019s comment comes on the eve of the start of the National Senior Certificate Examinations.||The union\u2019s comment comes on the eve of the start of the National Senior Certificate Examinations.","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18570,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13454\/revisions\/18570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}