{
  "id": 17221301,
  "title": "UNDOCUMENTED LEARNERS: Running the Gauntlet — The matrics caught between xenophobia, paperwork and the classroom door",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/undocumented-learners-running-the-gauntlet-the-matrics-caught-between",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-30T12:14:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Maverick",
    "slug": "daily-maverick",
    "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-10-30-running-the-gauntlet-the-matrics-caught-between-xenophobia-paperwork-and-the-classroom-door/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "As close to a million learners sit for this year’s National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, people of all ages will be vividly recalling the rooms where they sat for their ‘matric finals’, and the nauseating excitement that pervaded those spaces, not to mention the apprehension that came before, or the mixed emotions that followed the ‘pen’s down’ call. It was, is, and will always be a stressful…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}