The fight about who gets the tender to provide schools with personal protective equipment has added to the delay of some schools receiving these Covid-19 essentials.
This was revealed on Monday in a media briefing in Rustenburg, North West by the department of basic education. postponed a briefing on Sunday evening that was supposed to have addressed the readiness of schools to reopen, which had been expected to happen on Monday June 1.
“So you could expect that has had a knock-on effect on the case of the delivery of the PPE,” he said. “The failure of the department and provincial education departments to comply with their undertakings and meet their own deadlines in terms of preparing schools for reopening, unfortunately mirrors their ongoing failures to provide textbooks, essential school infrastructure like toilets, and scholar transport,” read the statement.
However, basic education director general Mweli said that over the weekend he signed a collective agreement about how the sector would deal with teachers with underlying conditions during this period.
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