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STD V FAILURE FORGES RESULTS, ACCEPTED IN FORM I

23/03/2018 23:54:00 BY STANLEY KHUMALO

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PIGG’S PEAK – The adage, ‘you shall reap what you sow’, does not quite apply to *Muzi.

This follows that Muzi dismally failed Grade Seven but still managed to secure a place at Mhlatane High School with alleged fraudulent results.

Muzi did his Grade Seven at Mshingishingini Nazarene Primary School and twice he did not succeed at this grade.
He recorded failed (Fs) in all but one subject in the 2017 Swaziland Primary Certificate (SPC) results.

In his second attempt at Grade Seven, he recorded the following results: English F, Mathematics E, SiSwati F, Science F, Social Studies E, Agriculture F and Religious Education F.

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The learner only passed Consumer Science with symbol C.
Despite that, he somehow secured Form One results from Siteki Nazarene High School and presented them to Mhlatane High School to secure a place in the same grade.

Dr Mandla Dlamini, Head teacher at Mhlatane High School, confirmed that he had such a pupil enrolled at the school but said he was not conversant with how the said learner was admitted.

“We have lots of learners who seek space within the school and the deputy head teacher with his team is responsible for that.”
Upon enquiring with his team, Dr Dlamini said the pupil was admitted after he had presented Form One first term results from Siteki Nazarene High School.

The results were for last year and that he had been forced to drop out after falling sick and did not return to class, which is why he was seeking space in Form One at Mhlatane this year.

Dr Dlamini noted that it was hard for the school to know pupils who had forged their way into the school and lamented the thievery that was displayed by pupils in recent days.

“We’ve since checked for the results he used and we discovered that we gave them back to the pupils after they were admitted.”
Despite this setback, Dr Dlamini said they would follow up on the allegations that the pupil presented forged results.

Siteki Nazarene High School Head Teacher Phindile Makhanya dismissed knowledge of the pupil at the school.
Makhanya further expressed shock that someone would allege that they had a pupil at the school without having even having set foot on the premises.

“I checked my records and he wasn’t registered in my school,” she said.

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One person who confirmed knowing Muzi and remembers him very well is the Mshingishingini Nazarene primary Head teacher, Samuel Mdluli.

According to Mdluli, he had caught wind that the said pupil was enrolled at Mhlatane high in Form One.
He said this was surprising given that the pupil had not done well, not once, but twice in the SPC examinations.

Giving an example of the pupil’s performance, he said even if Muzi were to remark, his results did not warrant him to proceed to the next class.

“About a week ago, I heard a rumour that one of the 13 pupils who had failed Grade Seven was now in Form One. This is disturbing as it sends the wrong message to his peers currently in the same grade.”

Mdluli said this was the first time he heard of such being committed by a pupil from his school.
Such an act, according to Mdluli was disturbing as it brought forth a number of issues that were troubling him, pertaining to the conduct and location of the school.

“This school is remote and there are few homesteads around thus allowing pupils to bunk classes and hang out in the fields.”
This, he said, resulted in learners absenting themselves frequently from school and scheming on devious ways to advance in life.

Explaining further, he stated that at some point, learners from the school were also involved in illegal activities that entailed ploughing, weeding, harvesting and even the sale of dagga.

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He said this affected them immensely as their grades dropped drastically.
However, he was quick to note that he was not particularly sure if their involvement in the illegal activities were the ones that contributed to Muzi’s failure and subsequent forging of results.

“I’ll enquire on what to do in relation to this matter given that he is no longer a pupil in the school I administer.”
Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) Secretary General Zwelithini Mndzebele said the law should take its course as this was fraud.

“We are not used to this and such pupils should be reported to the police.”
Mndzebele further said it would be unfortunate if the pupils were being assisted by adults.

He said if so, then the adults were just breeding fraudsters who would never be accountable but would believe that they could get away with anything.

The Minister of Education and Training, Phineas Magagula, lambasted the students for the fraudulent and thievery ways they were using.

The Minister, Phineas Magagula, said pupils who presented forged documents to solicit scholarship from government were actually depriving deserving ones from getting the necessary funding.
“They are stealing from those who need the funding the most.”

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The minister said they were already working with the police in dealing with this.
Chief Police Information and Communication Officer Superintendent Khulani Mamba said they had arrested a number of fraudsters and further advised the public to desist from presenting false information to government officials.
He said this was equivalent to forgery or fraud when one had already benefitted by getting the sought help.