The Eastern Cape education department is scrambling to hire 800 unemployed people to help in the first phase of schools reopening next week. These recruits, employed as support staff, will be contracted for three months to help sanitise pupils and also make sure physical distancing rules are adhered to.
However, department spokesperson Loyiso Pulumani said schools without ablution facilities will not be opened. “Instead, pupils at those school will be taken to other schools,” he said, adding that the department had covered its bases in ensuring readiness to open schools.“We said let’s recruit unemployed people to assist with [the] sanitising station, as well as making sure the school is clean and that pupils adhere to physical distancing rules. Recruitment will take place this week.
Pulumani said the necessary protective clothing had been delivered to schools, but not all had received it yet.
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