Johannesburg, September 2020 – Grade 12 is the most critical year of any learner’s academic life; the bridge between secondary and higher education, as it were. For the more than 700 000 students enrolled in matric, this final year has become far more than a challenge. With Covid-19 stalking the corridors, their futures are looking decidedly dubious. Ten million. That’s how many African students have been scrambling for a solution to an academic year gone haywire, according to UNESCO. Add to this the classrooms full of Grade 12 learners who were expecting to join older students on campus next…