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Sowetan reports that schools in Gauteng have received personal protective equipment (PPE) and they are now gearing up to welcome grade 7 and 12 learners on 1 June.
On Monday, teachers and principals returned to schools for the first time in more than two months to prepare for the reopening of schools and to receive safety material such PPE from the provincial department. Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi visited some schools to check the preparations. He advised that teachers who were not fit and ready to start had been given forms to fill in so that the department could replace them. He also said: “We are putting additional cleaners on stand-by as we don’t want the gap where someone will say they are sick and cannot come to work.” But, Lesufi raised concerns about the issue of business people who were blocking the delivery of PPE, indicating that Tshwane south and north had been the hardest hit. “We have 103 schools that were supposed to receive PPE material but 65 have not received it. We are finding ourselves caught in between people who believe we have given a contract to Bidvest company and we have explained to them that Bidvest is only donating the PPE material, they have not won a tender,” he explained. Expressing the hope that by Friday all teachers would be back at schools, Lesufi noted that there were teacher unions encouraging their members not to report back to work, but said the issue of PPE was being dealt with.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Yoliswa Sobuwa on page 2 of Sowetan of 26 May 2020
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