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State to decide as unions urge closure of schools

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President expected to make announcement soon after cabinet meeting

Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga speaks to Grade 7 pupils during a visit to Funukukhanya Primary School at Tsakani in Ekhuruleni, Gauteng, to monitor reopening of schools to ensure compliance. Picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA

Colditz said the cabinet would meet on Thursday and “will probably then make a final decision which will be announced by the president tomorrow”. According to a source, a presentation by a subcommittee of the heads of education department committee, which met on Tuesday, said that schools should be shut.

Last Saturday, the five unions submitted a list of resolutions to Motshekga, calling for the immediate closure of schools until after Covid-19 infections had peaked. “The nation is quite divided on the issue of closing schools, with some SGB associations not in favour of the closure, backed up many educational specialists and political commentators,” said PEU general secretary Ben Machipi.

 

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