‘We are going to live on prayer’ - The Mail & Guardian

MPs have questioned the department of basic education’s readiness to reopen schools, with some calling the plan rushed, and others questioning whether it is wise to open schools.

School principals and management teams will, however, go back to schools on May 4 to ready schools for learners and to receive sanitisers and personal protective equipment. Briefing Parliament’s basic education portfolio committee in October, the department said the largest number of its self-set targets for 2019-20 were related to toilets, water and additional classrooms. Its Infrastructure Delivery Management Systems Report, released the previous month, laid out the scale of the problems. In terms of the improvement of sanitation facilities, the department said this had been completed at 103 of 776 schools.

In its presentation to Parliament, the department said it will provide mobile classrooms to limit overcrowding, because there should not be more than 40 learners in a class. It also said it will be hiring more teachers to deal with overcrowding. Some members of the portfolio committee expressed their doubt in the department’s “sudden” capacity to deal with long-standing issues.

Thompson said at the first meeting with the education department after Ramaphosa announced the lockdown, the procurement of personal protective equipment for schools before they reopen was discussed. But, said Thompson, some provinces put in orders for protective equipment only last week.

I don't the will be a parents that can risk the life of their children. So Angie and Blade must respect us. If private schools promised them something. Not on top of our children life

It would be premature dangerous decision.

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