While there is an understanding that schools needed to reopen at some point, many pupils are worried about their safety and how they will get to school
Tendani Nethengwe said that though she was worried about going back to school next month she hoped the government would keep its promises of providing hand sanitisers.
However, Nethengwe is worried about how the school will be able to implement social distancing and be able to teach them as there were not enough teachers. Nineteen-year-old Peter Bokay said he was afraid that going back to school would put his family in danger. “I am not sure yet how I will manage to go back to school because my parents, who depend on their salon for salaries, are now not working. I take a train to school and normally when there are no trains it means I cannot go to school because I cannot afford another mode of transport,” he said.“They have asked us to go back to school when the virus is spreading faster in the country. It means that we are now exposed to danger.
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