The Chairman of the Council of Traditional Leaders of Namibia, Gaob Immanuel |Gâseb, has advised against politicizing the high learner failure rate of the 2022 examinations.

He says the government should be given the trust and support to come up with a workable solution that will relieve the impact this failure will have on the entire education system and country.

The chairman says the extraordinarily high failure rate is a setback for the economic and human development of the country.

Gaob |Gâseb calls on the government, especially the Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture, to consider options such as supplementary examinations and remarking of exams to avoid the influx of thousands of non-schooling youth into the streets.

He also congratulates those who qualified for the next level under difficult circumstances and encourages those who have not made it not to give up.

Only 5,800 candidates out of over 38,000 who sat for the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary and Advanced Subsidiary levels scored 25 points or above to qualify for entry into tertiary institutions.