Basic education minister Angie Motshekga said Grade 7 and 12 pupils would return to school on June 1
Cebisile Mbonani
The revised school calendar will be gazetted “soon” and will provide dates of the reopening and closing of schools, as well as breaks.as she warned that keeping pupils out of school for too long, would result in some dropping out for good. “We have history around that. In 2010 when there was this long teachers’ strike, [many] of our learners, especially teenagers, didn't come back.”
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