{"id":71926,"date":"2014-10-28T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T08:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/71926\/problems-first-day-exams\/"},"modified":"2014-10-28T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T08:11:53","slug":"problems-first-day-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/28\/problems-first-day-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"No problems on first day of exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Phumla Sekhonyane, spokesperson for the Gauteng Department of Education, says that about 140 000 learner across the province wrote English Home Language and First Additional Language papers this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll districts reported that the distribution of question papers proceeded well and most schools started on time.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cGauteng has this year registered a total of 101 265 full-time candidates and 42 382 part-time candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sekhonyane says that these candidates are writing their exams in 928 centres across all districts in Gauteng.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe department has established an exams war room to monitor the process and a rapid response team is also on standby to respond to any eventuality.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarmenBoksburg\" target=\"_blank\">@CarmenBoksburg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='434ce44c7bc64be9419a9aeb76409097'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The matric examination in all centres in Gauteng got off to a good start with no incidents or irregularities reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":71927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Carmen Norton","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8516],"tags":[5212,1755,1648,10,2362],"class_list":["post-71926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines","category-local-school-news","tag-caxton-east-and-south-division","tag-education","tag-gauteng","tag-local-school-news","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Schools"},"tag_labels":["caxton east and south division","education","Gauteng","Schools","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}