Today Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga briefed the media on the sector's preparedness for the planned reopening of schools on Monday, 26 July 2021.
We hold this media briefing in times of trouble. It happens on the back of disturbing incidents of looting and burning down of buildings and vehicles.
We extend our appreciation for the professional service we received at vaccination sites, from the start to the end of the programme. Teacher unions, organised labour and national governance bodies in the Sector, played a phenomenal role. Helping with the advocacy, vaccination education as well as information, and leading from the front. Their support and assistance, as unions, contributed enormously towards the success of the programme. For that I wish to thank them most sincerely.
As far as vaccination plans are concerned, the Sector had targeted five hundred and eighty-two thousand personnel in the Basic Education Sector; and when we formally closed the vaccination programme, we recorded five hundred and seventeen thousand people, who have received the vaccines – an 89% vaccination success rate.
The Director-General is continuing to convene one-on-one meetings with the Heads of the Provincial Education Departments, to ensure that there is continuous sharing of experiences and working together. The BEEI was also focused not only on the support that these young people gave to the department but different training and skilling opportunities were created for them. Working with different private sector organisations, NGOs and in particular, the education SETA and the construction SETAs, ongoing training was provided to these young people.
This senseless attack on the education infrastructure leads to the vandalism of ablution blocks and plumbing equipment; destruction of water supplies, including theft of school water tanks; ripping off of electric wires, especially copper cables; ripping school fences; setting alight libraries, textbooks, and stationery. Clearly, ICT equipment and the National School Nutrition Programme supplies and equipment were targeted the most.
As a priority, we agreed on executive roadshows, paying special attention to identified hotspot areas; and to normalise learning environments, once schools reopen.On 30 June 2021, His Excellency, the President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, signed the National Proclamation to effect the Early Childhood Development function shift from the Department of Social Development to the Department of Basic Education . The signed Proclamation was gazetted the same day.
The DBE recognises the important work that has been taking place in the Sector, and has no intention to reinvent the wheel. The intention is to come alongside stakeholders and to create an enabling environment to support and enhance what they have been doing.
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