CLAIM: Form Four students to repeat in 2021 due to COVID-19. Source: WhatsApp message showing doctored ZBC screen grab.
RATING: FALSE. The government has not deferred the 2020 examination programme.
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has dismissed claims, circulating on WhatsApp, that the government has deferred public school examinations for 2020.
The WhatsApp message shows a doctored ZBC television news screen, with a purported scroll which reads: “Form fours to repeat in 2021 due to nCvd19”
“As far as we are concerned, preparations for the June 2020 examinations are underway and if there are any changes, they will be communicated,” the education ministry’s spokesperson, Patrick Zumbo, told ZimFact on March 30.
He added that the minister would soon issue a statement on public school examinations.
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