The minister - who has come under attack from opposition parties, NGOs and teacher unions - outlined the reasons behind the delay in the reopening of schools at a press conference on Monday morning.
Motshekga attributed the delay to last-minute changes taken at the council late on Saturday, where it was decided that schools should not receive learners on Monday. Instead, they should use this week to"mop up". “I didn't want principals to first hear from the media that they can't receive learners before we speak to them directly. I had to engage with association of school principals, leadership of schools both private and independent because they were also using the date“I just could not jump other steps especially with people who were affected. Principals had to know what to communicate to parents., which was threatening to interdict Monday's reopening of schools.
“Based on these reports, it became clear that the sector was at different levels of readiness. We are allowed to reopen schools only if we meet requirements to the full. Those reports confirmed that in some instances we were 80% [ready]; in other provinces we were 96%. We were not all at the same level,” said Motshekga.
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It's interesting to see how other countrues are tackling these challenges compared to the childs-play in our backyard.Then we say we want to be at the same level of development as Americas,Asia and Europe.We cannot open 1 class for lessons after 30days of planing.
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