DJ Maphorisa Reacts To Claims That Amapiano Is The Reason Behind Matriculants Failing. Amapiano is the in-thing in South Africa right now. Although fairly new, it has been able to not only unseat other genres but to steal musicians from other genres as well. Yes, peeps have ditched hip hop and other genres to focus on amapiano. In the years since amapiano emerged, some people have given the genre a timeline to disappear into oblivion, but amapiano music has continued to wax strong.
A false claim stating that the member of the executive council (MEC) of the department of basic education, Panyaza Lasufi, has blamed amapiano music for the mass failure of students at matric in 2021. It was revealed that only 32 percent of students who sat for matric actually passed. The rest failed because of amapiano music, according to false claims.
With Amapiano having dominated throughout the festive season, a social media user decided it would be fun to creative a poster claiming it is from the department of education, claiming that matriculants of 2021 have failed dismally due to amapiano. Maphorisa who is at the forefront of the genre reacted to this joke, laughing it off that there is no way it could be amapiano being responsible for failed matriculants.
The false circular also provoked great amusement online, with many people wondering how the amapiano genre could have provoked mass failure at matric. Some peeps who tried to rationalize the MEC’s statement wondered if people abandoned matric to play amapiano music.
