Education departments are scrambling to find replacements for hundreds of matric exam markers who've pulled out at the last minute. The second wave of the corona virus pandemic has resulted in markers withdrawing because they're ill, have been exposed to a positive person or have cited fear of exposure. In Gauteng alone, close to 900 markers didn't show up and it's estimated that the figure for the Eastern Cape is around 265. Angela Bolowana filed this report. We also spoke to Mugwena Maluleke, General Secretary of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU)