JOHANNESBURG - The Gauteng Education Department says it’s working to strengthen the government gazette on school excursions, to ensure that all institutions adhere to the rules.
Provincial Education MEC Matome Chiloane was speaking on Wednesday, at the funeral service of two pupils who drowned at a discipline camp in Centurion earlier this month.This is the second drowning incident in the province to occur during a school excursion since the beginning of the year.GDE to appoint independent law firm to investigate drowning of 2 Daveyton Skills School pupils"We are going to strengthen it with ambiguous letters. We think we have words like ‘within reasonable measure’.
Chiloane said the department would also be strict when it comes to dealing with schools that have broken the law during the planning of excursions. "Those who have taken trips, as soon as we find out that there was a trip undertaken and we know, whether no child was injured or not, we are still going to charge you. We are still going to take it up with the school. Someone is going to be charged and that’s how it’s going to be."
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