Department of Basic Education challenges Information Regulator's enforcement notice on matric results

The Department of Basic Education has lodged an application to set aside the enforcement notice issued by the Information Regulator regarding the publication of matric results in newspapers. “The Information Regulator on or about November 6, decided to serve the Department of Basic Education with an enforcement notice,” the department said in a statement on Saturday. “The tenor of the enforcement notice is to prevent the annual publication of the matric examination results in the local newspapers.”The papers were filed by the department at the High Court in Pretoria on Friday, December…