Build One South Africa has called on the government to increase the matric pass rate to 50 percent in order to prepare learners for the economy.
Currently a learner only needs to attain 30 percent to pass matric and the party said this has to change.
A handful of party supporters held demonstrations outside the venue of the announcement of the 2024 results in Randburg outside Johannesburg.
“We are saying asifuni agenda ye 30%. The pass rate must be 50 percent and nothing less,” said BOSA activist and Gauteng MPL Ayanda Ali-Payne who led the protest.
The party also raised concern about the high dropout rate putting it as high as 41 percent of those who enter the schooling system.
“As we congratulate the class of 2024 we should do so knowing that they got here against all odds as millions of their peers dropped out along the way,” she said.
BOSA also claims the results that are being announced are a misrepresentation of the actual pass rate and demanded more transparency.
“Every year the Democratic Alliance has argued for the minister of basic education to tell South Africa the truth about the Real Pass Rate. This time the DA is heading the Ministry of Basic Education. Will they tell South Africans the truth about the real pass rate? Will they drop the lie of 30% and 40%? The truth will set us all free. We need to calculate the pass rate not only on those who wrote the exam but those who were left behind,” said party leader Mmusi Maimane, who briefly stopped the protest.