Basic education minister Angie Motshekga’s plans to get teachers back to school on Monday have been thrown into disarray after a provincial education department and a teachers' union asked educators not to return.
The Sadtu secretariat said that screeners had not yet been appointed at the province’s schools and that some did not have running water.
Meanwhile, Naptosa in KwaZulu-Natal said that the delivery of PPEs, including thermal scanners and cleaning material, has been “a complete disaster”.A report compiled by a team monitoring the delivery of PPEs in KwaZulu-Natal’s Umgungundlovu district paints a very bleak picture.The district was expecting 1,470 infrared thermometers, 13,387 bars of soap and 20,845 bottles of sanitiser but none have yet been delivered.
“School readiness stands at 10%. Teachers return on Monday but they don’t have temperature devices and masks.”The North West education department asked governing bodies and principals to identify people for a “once-off cleaning” of the school. The department will pay R8,000 to schools with more than 700 pupils and R5,000 to those having fewer than 700 pupils.The five teacher unions are meeting the basic education department on Saturday afternoon to get a report on the state of readiness for the reopening of schools
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