Private schools can open even if public schools don't, says deputy minister

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Private and independent schools were well within their rights to resume their academic year, even while public schools have pushed back their reopening by two weeks because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to Mweli, 16,495 teachers had tested positive for Covid-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic 10 months ago, while more than 3,000 non-teaching education staff and 5,663 pupils contracted the virus.The majority of the Covid-19 teacher fatalities were registered in the Western Cape, with 91 educators who succumbed to the coronavirus, while the Free State was the least affected — with three fatalities.

Of the pupils who died with Covid-19, Free State tops the list with four. Five provinces — Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Northern Cape and Western Cape — remain unscathed. On progress made in the marking of matric exam papers, the department reported that all provinces would have completed the process by January 21.The department had finished marking before targeted dates despite the withdrawal of 2,463 markers because of Covid-19 and other reasons. Most of the markers who withdrew were in Gauteng while Northern Cape had only 60 withdraw.Mhaule said the department had done relatively well in managing the effect of the pandemic on education.

 

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The inequalities are saddening.

Is Lesufi and his fellow travelers aware of this

When government failed to plan people such as populist Lesufi started disrupting private schools who knew what they were doing. .so unfair

Lol

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weaken their ability study weaken the system so that in future in they don't have enough facts to ask questions. SA youth raise up your capacity to gain knowledge is getting extinct. Knowledge in your mind is not awarded nor acknowledged than that seen on paper, dats our system.

You comparing your school and this

This just means we are going to have a lot of wealthy kids taking up bed space in private hospitals!

Pvt schools back on 27 Jan.

The tale of the two cities!

Enklek,who is running de country mare here🤔

Cyril Ramaphosa's brother is an Executive at Curro so such we understand where the protection is coming from.

Entlik what is happening between Ministers and President of this country, who should we listen to?

That means those learners won't be affected by this virus........compare to public ones.............. 🤔

Even if their act threatens public health!? Who gave them licenses to practice? can they defy order from department that they owe their existence to!?

For me, this just exposed the inequities in our society further . It is painful to watch

We’ve been saying 🤦🏾‍♀️ but we have MECs who are Twitter influencers so🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️

Nibasabani abelungu

Reason why we should get rid of these old for fucks in these crucial positions.

All schools must shut down for ever.

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