With a week to go before schools reopen, a number of Eastern Cape schools are still not compliant with Covid-19 standard operating procedures. These were the findings of a survey undertaken by education union the National Professional Teachers’ Organisa...
Education spokesperson Loyiso Pulumani said the department had empowered school governing bodies and school management teams to use their budgets to top up requirements for PPE and water tanks.
Of the schools that responded to the survey in the province, 54% said they would have an adequate water supply by next week. “There was a call for evaluation on whether the amount of alcohol in sanitisers was enough,” Mbinda said. “Despite that, the department hasn’t furnished us with that information.”
“There is a school in Cala which said it would rather use pit latrines built by the community than the mobile toilets provided by the department.”
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