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BusinessLive reports that Department of Basic Education (DBE) Minister Angie Motshekga postponed Thursday’s planned announcement about when schools will reopen in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The reason given was that she still has to determine whether provincial education departments were ready to do so. At issue is whether the provinces have put the necessary measures in place to convince teacher unions that schools are a safe workplace that can fulfil the hygiene and social distancing protocols set out by the DBE. The minister has run into stiff opposition from teacher unions, who say schools will not be ready to safely open on the 1 June target date she has proposed and have advised their members not to return to work. Motshekga said in a statement on Thursday that she would convene a special meeting of the Council of Education Ministers (CEM) on 18 May to review the state of readiness of the provinces. The CEM includes all the MECs for education, and the heads of the provincial education departments. Teachers were due to return to schools on 18 May, ahead of the phased return of learners, starting with grades 12 and 7, on 1 June. But many schools have not received deliveries of masks or sanitisers.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tamar Kahn at BusinessLive
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