South Africa's Grade 5 pupils have been ranked last out of 59 countries in maths and science in an international standardised ...

South Africa’s performance in the latest international TIMMS maths and science study has produced a shocking result, with ...

English literature and maths - being the first to be graded in numbers. By 2020, all subjects were using the new grading system. The highest grade is 9, while 1 is the lowest, and U means "ungraded".