STAATSKOERANT, 5
DESEMBER
2008
No.31674
5
(ii)
is
found to have gained any unlawful advantage,
in
respect of one or more of these examinations,
before,
on
or after the date of the examination or examinations concerned;
will
be
deemed not to have offered or sat any examination at that sitting,
and
will not
be
allowed
endorsement or exemption
on
the grounds of any result
in
any examination offered and sat at that sitting;
"official language" means Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana,
siSwati, Tshivenda and Xitsonga;
"one full credit of instructional offerings" means a set of instructional offerings which must
be
passed
by
a
matriculated candidate for a complete first year
as
prescribed for the degree for which he or she
is
registered;
"Ordinary Level subject" means any subject offered for and passed with a symbol of
A,
B or C at the
Ordinary Level, the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) level or the International General
Certificate of Secondary Education
(IGCSE)
level prescribed for the examinations conducted
by
the
examining bodies mentioned
in
Annexure I or the Namibian Ministry of Education;
"part-time candidate" means a candidate not attending school
on
a full-time basis and includes a private
candidate;
"pass
in
a subject" means obtaining at least 33 1/3 per cent of the maximum marks
in
an
official language
Second Language Higher Grade, at least 33 1/3 per cent of the maximum of marks
in
any subject
on
the
Standard Grade and at least 40 per cent of the maximum of marks
in
an
ASECA subject or any other Higher
Grade subject: Provided that the candidate has not been found guilty of any irregularity
in
the relevant
examination or that he or she did not gain any unlawful advantage before,
on
or after the date
on
and
time at
which the examination concerned was conducted;
"Principal Level subject" means a subject offered for and passed at the Principal Level
in
the Higher School
Certificate examination previously conducted
by
the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate;
"recognised examination" means a senior certificate examination recognised by the Council, or another
examination recognised
by
the Committee of Principals, for the purpose of admission to bachelor's degree
study at a South African university
by
virtue of completed qualifications or subjects passed at a standard
acceptable to the Committee of Principals;
"school" means a public school or
an
independent school
as
defined in terms of the South African Schools
Act, 1996 (Act
84
of 1996);
"senior certificate" means a school-leaving certificate with pass marks
in
at least five Higher Grade or five
Standard Grade subjects or a combination of five Higher Grade and Standard Grade subjects, approved
by
the Committee of Principals and issued
by
the Council, or
an
equivalent certificate issued prior to the
commencement of section 9 of the South African Certification Council Act, 1986 (Act 85 of 1986);
"Standard Grade subject" means a subject offered and passed
on
the Standard Grade
in
a senior certificate
examination recognised by the Council;
"subject" means a senior certificate instructional offering at a level acceptable to the Committee of
Principals;
"Subsidiary Level subject" means a subject offered for and passed at the Subsidiary Level prescribed for the
examinations of the examining bodies mentioned in Annexure
I;
"SYSTEM Recovery Programme
SUbject"
means a
SUbject
as approved by the Committee of Principals
passed
towards
the
Students
and
Youth
into
Science,
Technology,
Engineering
and
Mathematics
(SYSTEM) Recovery Programme for the purpose of these requirements;
"the Act" means the Universities Act, 1955 (Act
61
of 1955), as amended, read with Section
74
of the Higher
Education Act, 1997 (Act
101
of 1997);
"university language of instruction" means
an
official language which is designated, by notice by a university
to the Committee of Principals and
in
accordance with the Minister of Education's higher education language