'Teachers exam u-turn a necessary evil'

For Petronela Mangisi, "The teachers' action, though to some degree it is tantamount to a betrayal of the struggle and a massive own goal, has brought more joy to us as parents. It must be understood that as parents we were so stressed about the threat of the boycott after the invigilation scare. It was like a dark cloud hanging over our heads."

She says that the recent stalemate over the issue of invigilation and marking was a sad chapter in the history of education, which had every patriotic citizen worried. "This was a very difficult time for everybody including the candidates themselves," she says.