Lesufi said the department will also be recruiting 7,000 unemployed youth, called the youth brigade, to assist with physical distancing and screening in schools.
The Gauteng Department of Education says it expects 300,000 Grade 7 and 12 pupils back when schools reopen on 1 June.
The Department of Health will then issue a certificate of occupation, deeming the school clean and safe.Lesufi said 577 schools were not in a position to do the deep cleaning, which is why Bidvest had donated its services to the schools and would also provide sanitiser dispensers. The department has also put in place strict control guidelines in schools, and these include a no visitors approach.
Classrooms will be marked, and one pupil will occupy each table. No class will have more than 20 pupils. Lesufi said the department was also procuring the services of general practitioners to start their day at schools, monitoring educators and pupils, before heading to their surgeries.
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