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TimesLIVE reports that the Department of Basic Education (DBE) has denied that it plans to scrap this year’s spring holidays due to lost teaching time.
On Tuesday, Minister Angie Motshekga and director-general (DG) Mathanzima Mweli denied that the department was planning to do away with the holidays. Schools are meant to go on break from 4 to 8 October. Last week, DBE spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga was quoted as saying the department had concluded consultations with unions regarding the possibility of postponing the October holidays, but a decision on the matter still had to be made. Motshekga told MPs on Tuesday that although the department was concerned about the time lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic this year, they “are not scrapping holidays.” She went on to indicate: “What we have committed ourselves to as a department was that we are going to look for days in the remaining days to compensate for those lost. It’s not scrapping. It’s our efforts to recover the days lost because of the problems that came with Covid-19.” Teacher unions and student governing bodies last week expressed their unhappiness with the possible scrapping of the October holidays, as apparently discussed by the council of education ministers (CEM) and the heads of education departments committee (Hedcom).
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Aphiwe Deklerk at TimesLIVE
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