TimesLIVE reports that the Educators Union of SA (Eusa) is planning to approach the courts on Friday for an interdict against the government's plan to partially open schools on 1 June.  

Union spokesperson Kabelo Mahlobogwane likened sending children back to school in winter without the necessary safety precautions in place to "genocide".  He advised that the union would be filing an application against basic education minister Angie Motshekga and the Department of Basic Education at the South Gauteng High Court.  Mahlobogwane said the union was not opposed to schools being opened, but they wanted the DBE to guarantee the safety of teachers and pupils.  The union has proposed that the department wait until September, when the weather has improved, before reopening schools and has also suggested that the DBE takes all matriculants “to a camp, away from everyone."  Mahlobogwane went on to comment:  "When we signed up to be teachers, we did not sign up to endanger our lives.  How do you send children to face an invisible enemy?  If anyone is infected, we will sue her [Motshekga] in her personal capacity."

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nomahlubi Jordaan at TimesLIVE

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