SA students die during ‘unapproved’ exam celebration
South Africa’s North-West Province’s department of education is investigating how a trip for final-year students that left three dead was approved.
The students who had completed their matric exams at Rethusegile Secondary School were travelling back from a trip in Brits area when their vehicle was involved in a road accident.
Matric exams are sat for by Grade 12 students to mark the end of secondary school.
Three of the students died in the spot while seven others were injured and taken to the hospital, local media reports.
School trips had been banned and only educational ones were to be approved by the education department, public broadcaster SABC reports.
The students were reportedly coming from a resort to celebrate the end of matrics exams.
The examinations were administered under strict guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
