The National Teachers Union has expressed dissatisfaction over the absence of Education Department representatives in Durban, where they would have restarted the process of selecting markers for matric final exam papers.

The department had to withdraw 9 500 wrongfully appointed candidates to mark this year’s matric final examination papers. The majority of the candidates did not meet the requirements. Teacher unions Natu and South African Democratic Teachers Union say they picked up the problem during the evaluation process.

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