Question NW2271 to the Minister of Basic Education

Reply:

a) The Table below indicates the number of candidates that wrote all seven subjects in the 2017 National Senior Certificate examination and passed and therefore qualify for a full certificate, the number of certificates that were issued by Umalusi, the number of certificates outstanding, and the percentage of outstanding certificates.

Province	Candidates that Passed	Issued Certificates	Outstanding certificates	% Outstanding
EASTERN CAPE	44 413	25 069	19 344	43.6
FREE STATE	21 875	21 875	0	0.0
GAUTENG	82 894	70 564	12 330	14.9
KWAZULU-NATAL	90 909	86 203	4 706	5.2
LIMPOPO	54 624	51 838	2 786	5.1
MPUMULANGA	36 270	36 049	221	0.6
NORTH WEST	24 707	24 707	0	0.0
NORTHERN CAPE	6 640	6 375	265	4.0
WESTERN CAPE	41 234	41 234	0	0.0

Umalusi Certification System: 2017 Nov Database

b) In the case of the seven provinces, the small number of certificates that are outstanding are due to data errors, and in these cases the certificate requests were rejected by the Quality Assurance Council, Umalusi. The Provincial Education Department (PED) is currently attending to these data errors and these data sets will be resubmitted to Umalusi.

In the case of the Eastern Cape and Gauteng, the large number of candidates that have not as yet received their certificates is due to a system problem that is currently being attended to by the State Information Technology (SITA), the provinces involved and the Department of Basic Education (DBE). It needs to be noted that all learners in the Eastern Cape and Gauteng provinces, have been resulted and have received their Statement of Results. The DBE is prioritizing the outstanding certificates and the DBE will ensure that all outstanding certificates will be issued in the next two weeks.