Basic Education Department spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga warned yesterday that private schools had the right to remain open despite the national closure of public schools for the next four weeks, as the country reaches the Covid19 peak.
Durban - The Congress of South African Students has threatened to shut down private schools.
He said private schools had approached the department with a special request to be treated differently. He said Cosas had the “wrong idea” to think that in four weeks the schools that stayed open would expand the gap between the rich and poor.Scelo Bhengu, the president of the Educators Union of SA, said the organisation had visited three private schools in Durban yesterday, and two of them had agreed to close for a month while the third school was engaging with its head office on the matter.
Cosas spokesperson Douglas Ngobeni said the organisation had taken a decision to shut down all private schools nationwide due to the increasing number of Covid-19 infections and the inequalities between private and public schools. He said matric pupils should be moved to academic camps, and the other grades phased in in September.
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