GALLERY: Pretoria class of 2017 excels

Motshekga said Tshwane South and Tshwane North ranked third and fifth with an 89.8 percent and 88.9 percent pass rate respectively.

January 5, 2018

Robinson Nqola 2 minutes read

Pretoria’s class of 2017 performed well with two districts making the top 10 best performers in the country.

This is according to basic education minister Angie Motshekga, who announced the national senior certificate results on Thursday evening in Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

Motshekga said Tshwane South and Tshwane North ranked third and fifth with an 89.8 percent and 88.9 percent pass rate respectively.

Rekord visited a number of schools where the Pretoria class of 2017 collected their report cards on Friday, most of which achieved a pass rate over the 80 percent mark.

Amogelang secondary school in Soshanguve achieved a 80.61 percent pass rate with 76 bachelor passes.

Amogelang pupil Kearabilwe Bandzo said she was grateful for the support of her teachers, classmates and principal.

“I would not have made it this far if it wasn’t for their encouragement.”

Even with a commendable pass rate, Mamelodi’s Vlakfontein Technical High School principal Moses Mafokane said his school could have done better.

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“We have a pass rate of 80 percent, which is improvement of 0,3 percent from the year before, but had aimed for 90 percent.”

Another school in Mamelodi, Solomon Mahlangu High achieved a pass rate of 91,5 percent.

Teacher Elizabeth Mathiba said the pass was on the back of a 100 percent pass rate for mathematics and four distinctions for history.

All 187 candidates who sat for matric at Hoërskool Centurion passed, with 83.4 percent of them obtaining a bachelor pass while 16.6 percent a diploma pass.

“We are also proud of the head girl, Anika Lindeque, the school’s top achiever with nine distinctions,” said the school’s PR officer Karla Roux.

In the Moot, Denise Bester of Hoërskool Oos-Moot said he was relieved to be done with high school.

“I am very excited to have passed and to be finished with school.”

Anna Manaka of Pretoria West High School said she would miss the excitement of “topping my class in tests – that feeling is unexplanable”.

Deaan Roux said he was really happy he exceeded his expectations, while Liam Putter of Waterkloof High School said that he will miss all his friends and memories.