Evidence on the ground showed that there was no effective teaching and learning at schools during the current conditions, the biggest teachers'union said.
Pupils get down to business during the first day back at school at Wordsworth High School in Benoni, 8 June 2020. Picture: Neil McCartney
South Africa’s biggest teachers’ union, the South African Democratic Teachers Union has resolved that schools should close amid a peak in Covid-19 cases in South Africa, it announced during a media briefing on Tuesday. Reading the statement, the union’s secretary general Mugwena Maluleke said its NEC resolved that schools close until the end of the peak.Maluleke said evidence on the ground showed that there was no effective teaching and learning at schools during the current conditions.
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