A Polokwane High Court judge has dismissed an urgent application that sought to set aside government’s proposal to reopen schools on June 1.
According to the department of basic education spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga, the urgent application brought by the Tebeila Institute of Leadership, Governance and the Training and the African Institute for Human Rights and Constitutional Litigation was dismissed by Judge Gerrit Muller on Tuesday.The institutes had approached the court in an attempt to also stop the department from implementing the recovery plan for schools as a result of Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
“Judge Muller agreed with the department that the competent court would have been the Pretoria High Court because that is where [in Pretoria] the offices of the minister and the department are located, not in Polokwane in Limpopo,” Mhlanga said. Mhlanga said in the answering affidavit, the department’s director-general Mathanzima Mweli stated that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga did not come up with the draft recovery plan overnight but it had been developed with rational, considered and responsible input from stakeholders as well as interested and affected parties.
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