South Africa Schools to Reopen On Monday 8th June, 2020 - Motshekga

The South African government has announced the reopening of schools on Monday 8th June, 2020. 

The announcement was made via a tweet by South Africa's Education Minister Angie Motshekga: As she confirmed 95% of schools in the nation are ready to kickoff the academic year. While measures have been put in place for the remaining 5%.

In a tweet posted by the Education Minister She said.. 

"We can now say with confidence that about 95% of our schools have been ably provided with the Covid-19 imperatives.

"The sector, with the assistance of our partners, will strive to deal with the remaining 5% to ensure that the unfettered rights to health, safety and basic education for all South African children are protected. The golden rule is, there will be no school that will resume, if not ready to do so."

For schools which have not yet proved to be ready, she said: "For the remaining 5% or so learners, alternative measures have been developed by different districts such as temporarily using neighbouring schools, using under-utilised spaces in boarding schools and putting other learners in camps.

"Because some of the alternatives need consultations with parents, provinces will be engaging parents and following the appropriate protocols to get parental concessions. All of this we agreed should be finalised during the course of the week and recovery programmes be implemented."