These are the schools that have been able to achieve more than a 90% pass rate in 2021’s matric results. The recognition comes after a question of the language policy status of the top 20 performing schools in each province was raised by DA Member in the National Assembly, Désirée van der Walt. Free State has at least fourteen schools which are Afrikaans-Medium that were able to obtain 100%, while the North West has at least five schools. In the Northern Cape, at least six schools got 100%, while at least four got over 90%.

Van der Walt’s question was in focus of whether the top 20 performing schools are single medium, double medium, parallel medium, and/or something other. However, Motshekga’s reply showed the top performing schools in each medium, in each province. Some of the fourteen Free State Afrikaans-Medium Schools include Fichardtpark High School, Jacobsdal Agricultural School, Koffiefontein High School, Reitz High School and Vrede High School. While the ones in the North West includes Brits High School, HaMaKom Private School and Stella High School. Some of the top ones in the Northern Cape includes Diamantveld High School, Douglas High School, Fraserburg High School and Hopetown High School.

When coming to English-Medium schools in the Free State, the top ones in Motshekga’s reply recognised at least 13 and they included Christian Brothers College, Clocolan Secondary School, Eunice Secondary School, Lekgulo Secondary School and New Horizon College. 

In the North West, at least 17 schools were shown in the reply to have received 100%, some of the schools are Educators High School, Harmony Christian School, Kejakile Secondary school, Maruapula Secondary School and Potchefstroom Girls High. At least three schools were included in Motshekga’s reply when it came to the Northern Cape, Degania High School and Noupoort Christian Education College were both recognised for receiving 100%, whereas the third school, Kimberley Girls’ High School, received 99.3%.

The top schools that are Afrikaans-English medium (parallel medium) that the reply included in the Free State, were five and five of them all managed to obtain 100%. The schools are the Academy of Excellence, Hennenman Secondary School, Saint Andrew’s School, Rosenhof High School, and Villers High School. 

The reply listed two schools; Ferdinand Postma and Sannieshof High School from the North West, which both obtained 100%. The five schools that were listed in the reply from Northern Cape did not obtain 100%, they are Hoërskool De Aar (98.6%), Hoërskool Kalahari (98.3%), Hoërskool Keimoes (97.0%), Noord-Kaap High School (95.2%) and Hoërskool Upington High school (98.4%).

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