يحاول ذهب - حر
High matric pass rate hides serious youth challenges
January 28, 2026
|The Mercury
MANY congratulations to the class of 2025.
However, I must repeat what I have said before. Every year we see more and more learners getting 10, 9, 8, 7 distinctions, etc. It's absolutely amazing and one has to ask, is the standard a bit too low for these bright kids?
Then we look at the other end of the scale, and we see one can get a pass with a few subjects in the 30s and a few in the forties? Is that a pass? I have to ask.
In my and my husband’: day, if one got one or two A’, you were lauded as brilliant. That would be poor in today’s matric pass. And yet were we not as clever? Or did we not work half as hard? I'm not sure of the answer.
هذه القصة من طبعة January 28, 2026 من The Mercury.
اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
هل أنت مشترك بالفعل؟ تسجيل الدخول
المزيد من القصص من The Mercury
The Mercury
Foot-and-Mouth outbreak exposes political failures of the DA
FOOT and mouth disease is a horrible virus that spreads like wildfire amongst cloven-hoofed cattle herds, causing painful blisters, fever and severe production losses.
2 mins
February 12, 2026
The Mercury
UN chief extends New Year greetings
“Chun jie kuai le!” (Happy Lunar New Year!)
1 min
February 12, 2026
The Mercury
NEDBANK CUP DRAW TS Galaxy and Sundowns ready to rewrite Nedbank Cup history
TS GALAXY will renew their rivalry with Mamelodi Sundowns in the Nedbank Cup last-16 clash, with both sides hoping to rediscover success in one of South Africa's most prestigious knockout competitions following Wednesday evening's draw.
2 mins
February 12, 2026
The Mercury
The local residential property market demands more stock to meet household needs
THE South African residential property market needs more formal stock in the bands where most households sit.
3 mins
February 12, 2026
The Mercury
Mantashe's defiant BEE grip will keep mining in the doldrums
THE annual Mining Indaba in Cape Town is a national asset.
1 mins
February 12, 2026
The Mercury
Concerns about Royal overreach
COMING in the wake of wanting the name of the province to exclude reference to ‘Natal, King Misuzulu’s call for mining to be banned on land he owns, should raise concerns about royal overreach.
1 min
February 12, 2026
The Mercury
Anglo American and Kumba Iron Ore launch funding facility for SMEs in South Africa
ANGLO American and Kumba Iron Ore launched the Impact Finance Facility (IFF), a catalytic funding facility designed to unlock growth capital for small and medium-sized businesses in under-served South African regions.
2 mins
February 12, 2026
The Mercury
Reyneke: The girl who showed the boys how to play cricket
“COACH, why do we have a girl in our team?”
3 mins
February 12, 2026
The Mercury
'Broken' animal biosecurity poses biggest threat to food affordability
AFTER years in the agricultural sector and having worked at the front line of political lobbying, disaster management, farmer development, land reform, biosecurity, financing, and farm security, I am deeply alarmed.
3 mins
February 12, 2026
The Mercury
Why measuring social impact has become a strategic imperative for South African business
FOR decades, corporate social responsibility occupied the comfortable terrain of narrative.
3 mins
February 12, 2026
Listen
Translate
Change font size