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The pupil who said ‘no’ to a matric rewrite

WHAT made a matric girl decide to challenge the minister and Department of Basic Education after the announcement of the planned rewrite of two exam papers?

The 18-year-old, whose name appears on the judgment that came as a relief to 391 000 matrics who, as a result, did not have to rewrite maths paper 2 and 282 000 who did not have to write science again, is Lienke Spies.

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