The Gauteng Education Department has pledged to get to the bottom of the matric cheating scandal.
Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has revealed that four independent schools in the province are implicated in so-called group copying.
Invigilation staff at Veritas School in Soweto have also been suspended.
Monitoring body Umalusi has identified potential cheating in seven of the nine provinces during the 2014 matric exams and Lesufi has warned that any schools found guilty of group copying will lose out on government subsidies.
“We don’t want cheating in our system. We don’t want other provinces to say you are number one because you are cheating,” said Lesufi.
“And there are schools [to whom] we give subsidies, independent schools. If you can check our results, if there were not some of these independent schools, we’d be very high,” he continued.
“So we are going to monitor all those independent schools. But the independent schools that scored less than 50 percent, they’ve kissed our subsidies goodbye.
“I’m not going to give money to schools that are not performing.”
