Senior Lecturer at Wits Education School Dr. Lee Rusnyak talks about some of the challenges in achieveing high matric pass rates.

Grade 12 learners are not the only ones waiting in anticipation for their final matric results. Their parents are equally on the edge.

Learners in Mpumalanga who wrote their matric exams last year are optimistic that they will pass.

The KwaZulu-Natal Education Department is confident that the province's class of 2013 will achieve a higher pass-rate than last year's 73%.

Social advocacy group, Section 27 says there's too much focus on the 2013 matric pass-rate although South Africa's education system is in crisis.

Dean of the Education faculty at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), Professor Sarah Gravett has called on government to start paying attention to the quality of matric results.

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The Western Cape Education Department says it's looking forward to the release of the 2013 National Senior Certificate exam results.

Driving skills specialist, Rob Handfield-Jones says the death toll for 2013 festive season is going to be the highest in South African history.

He says the increase in the number of death tolls can be attributed to a collapsed licensing system.