Thulani Manqoyi (53) was shot dead while sitting in his car in the parking lot of Heinz Park Primary School on Tuesday morning.
The epidemic and lockdown resulted in 50% to 75% of learning time being lost last year said Minister Angie Motshekga.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga Motshekga said that this was a societal failing that needed urgent action.
Minister Angie Motshekga has said the unpredicted closures of schools, and unplanned disruptions to teaching and learning, have resulted in the reversal of gains made in the last 20 years
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga gave an update on the latest developments in the sector's response to COVID-19 on Sunday morning.
Minister Angie Motshekga briefs the media to provide an update on the basic education sector’s response to the impact of COVID-19 on schooling.
Primary schools went back to full-time teaching this week but it quickly became apparent that many schools just did not have the space to welcome all learners back and keep them 1m apart.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga wants Cabinet to consider revising the current stipulated requirement, down to just half a meter.
Basic Education Minister Motshekga said that while she was happy that schooling had resumed across the country, she was aware that full-time learning will be difficult to implement under the current regulations.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and the department said that they had suffered tens of millions of rands worth of damage to property.
The return of learners at primary school level comes on the back of a successful vaccination programme for the education sector, with more than 517,000 personnel having received their vaccines.
R7 billion of that was allocated to the basic education department and Motshekga says R5 billion was used to employ almost 320,000 young people as teacher assistants and general workers.
Today Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga briefed the media on the sector's preparedness for the planned reopening of schools on Monday, 26 July 2021.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said the sector is ready to open schools depending on what President Cyril Ramaphosa says during his address to the nation on the alert level 4 lockdown on Sunday.
Schools have been closed since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the adjusted alert level 4 lockdown restrictions to ease the country's infection rate.
The Basic Education Department said that while they initially targeted 582,000 people in the sector, they'd now added over 789,000 staff including food handlers, janitors and support staff from independent schools and ECD centres on the EVDS system.
On Saturday, Motshekga held a media briefing and provided an update on the basic education sector’s response to the impact of COVID-19 on schooling.
Motshekga held a media briefing on Saturday, 19 June where she gave an update on COVID-19 infections and the upcoming staff vaccination drive in the sector.
