With matric exams drawing closer, MEC Debbie Schafer has encouraged those aged 18 and over to get their shots.
On Saturday, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said that the sector was ready to reopen schools depending on what President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his address on Sunday night.
Education MEC Debbie Schäfer said they had a number of plans for the second term, including 129 mobile classrooms and additional teaching posts.
Community members allegedly set up an illegal school along Old Faure Road in Forest Village.
The ANC in the Western Cape said it would be lodging complaints with the Human Rights Commission, the Public Service Commission, and the Public Protector on Friday.
According to eNCA the department's preliminary report has cleared the school of racism.
The department said the severe budget cuts requested by National Treasury would further increase the challenges pupils in the province face.
The president last month announced pupils across the country, excluding grade seven and matric pupils, would go on a four-week break due to fears over COVID-19 outbreaks.
Grade 12's returned to class on Monday they now have to knuckle down for their finals amid a disrupted school calendar.
A classroom and library at Marconi Beam Primary in Milnerton were set alight on Monday night. And the school hall at Sinenjongo High School in Joe Slovo was torched the following evening.
The three grades joined grade 7s and matrics, while remaining grades will be phased in over the next few weeks.
Grade 7s and matrics returned to school at the start of the month while other grades will be phased in July and August.
Teachers and other staff returned to work for the first time on Monday since schools closed a week before the national lockdown was implemented in late March.
Parent have asked where they should send their children as English is not a medium of instruction at Klapmuts Primary.
Provincial spokesperson Bronagh Hammond said an additional 109 mobile classrooms were placed in areas where there was a high demand.
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) said it’s understood the rape happened at a party over the weekend. Both learners are 17.
Black and coloured teenagers from a Blue Downs school said they were told to plait their hair and tie up their afros.
Earlier this week, a fight broke out at the school between two grade 10 girls.
