SADTU in the North West welcomes and appreciates the release of 2016 matric results. We want to congratulate all stakeholders inter alia, senior management of the Department under the Honorable MEC Sello Lehari, districts and area offices officials, principals, learners and selfless teachers; SADTU members to be specific. This we do following our knowledge of challenges facing the system. Indeed, the province with all its forces managed to prove no material condition of whatever magnitude can pull us down.