{"id":39264,"date":"2025-10-20T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=39264"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:40:00","slug":"free-state-matriculants-to-hold-prayer-service-ahead-of-final-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/10\/20\/free-state-matriculants-to-hold-prayer-service-ahead-of-final-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Free State matriculants to hold prayer service ahead of final exams &#8211; SABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>About 1000 matric learners will hold a prayer session in Qwaqwa in the eastern Free State on Monday ahead of the start of the 2025 national senior certificate final examinations. The exams will start on Tuesday with Computer Applications Tech and language papers.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial Education Department says at least 40 000 matric learners will write the exams in the Free State this year.<\/p>\n<p>The province maintained its top position in last year\u2019s matric exams.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s spokesperson, Howard Ndaba says, \u201cWe are also inviting various churches to be part of this prayer where we are praying for our learners to perform well. We are also taking this opportunity to motivate our learners and wish them the best of luck. We are targeting 45 percent Bachelor passes and 95 percent pass rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DBENews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#DBENews<\/a> | The Minister of Basic Education, Ms Siviwe Gwarube, will hold a press briefing on Monday, 20 October 2025, to outline the Department\u2019s State of Readiness for the 2025 National Senior Certificate (NSC) Examinations. The NSC examinations continue to represent a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SrRCPfDr31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SrRCPfDr31<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dep. Basic Education (@DBE_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DBE_SA\/status\/1979502046903513097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">October 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Free #State #matriculants #hold #prayer #service #ahead #final #exams #SABC #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1000 matric learners will hold a prayer session in Qwaqwa in the eastern Free State on Monday ahead of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39266,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39264\/revisions\/39266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}