From Matric Myths to Meaningful Pipelines

Our new article series challenges how South Africa’s employment problem is usually framed, shifting the focus from education failure to how matric results are misread and then embedded into employer decision-making and compliance practices.

1. The Matric Illusion: Why the Pass Rate Tells Employers the Wrong Story

Every January, South Africa’s matric results take over the news. Pass rates are celebrated, criticised and used, if only briefly, as a measure of whether the education system is moving in the right direction.

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2. Participation Isn’t Progress: Rethinking How We Measure Transformation

In the first article, I spoke about how matric has slowly become an entry requirement it was never really meant to be. When we treat school results as proof of workplace readiness, we start with the wrong assumptions.

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Working With the System We Have, Not the One We Wish We Had

3. Working With the System We Have, Not the One We Wish We Had

In the first article, I spoke about how matric has quietly become an entry point it was never designed to be. In the second, I explored how that same misunderstanding carries through into transformation frameworks and skills development, often leaving employers active, compliant and frustrated.

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