The South African Democratic Teachers Union has resolved during a special national executive committee meeting that all schools must be closed ahead of the country's Covid-19 peak.
Sadtu, the country's biggest teacher union, said it took the decision after a special national executive committee meeting on Tuesday. “The NEC, upon receiving all provincial reports about the dire state of the system on the ground, thus took the decision to call on the DBE to suspend all schooling activities with immediate effect until the peak of the pandemic rescinds,” said secretary-general Mugwena Maluleke.
Sadtu had held the meeting after concerns of rising Covid-19 infections at schools around the country. He said schools were also rocked by high absenteeism and substitute teachers for older teachers with underlying conditions was proving a problem to contend with for the departments. “All evidence on the ground is that there is no effective teaching and learning that is taking place under the current conditions. The pandemic has led to pandemonium in the education sector and this can be linked to the lacklustre leadership that we have been experiencing from the DBE at various levels,” said Maluleke.
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