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Meet the girl who said ânoâ to a matric rewrite - and won for everyone
By Valerie Boje
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Pretoria - What made a matric girl decide to challenge the minister and Department of Basic Education after the announcement of the planned rewrite of two exam papers?
The 18-year-old, whose name appears on the judgment which came as a relief to 391 000 matrics who, as a result, did not have to rewrite maths paper 2 and 282 000 who did not have to write science again, is Lienke Spies.
Asked about it, she said it was the stress of the exams after an unsettled year which spurred her on.