DBE condemns fake news reports on school closures
The Department of Basic Education has condemned the spread of false announcements of school closures.
The DBE said it was aware of a manipulated image doing the rounds purporting to be an announcement from Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
“The false announcement makes the false assertion that schools will close from May 26 and reopen on June 28.
“The department wishes to dismiss this image as fake news and continues to urge members of the public to be vigilant and verify sources of information they read before sharing it on social media,” the DBE said.
Motshekga tells MPs that schools returning to 100% unworkable The Department of Basic Education is currently investigating the possibility of returning all learners at primary school level due to the learning losses suffered as a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic but no decision has yet been made. FILE: Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. Picture: GCIS.
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CAPE TOWN - A round table discussion on school infrastructure is under way between national and provincial education officials.
The Department of Basic Education and officials from the provincial education departments are delivering presentations to the portfolio committee on Basic Education.
The infrastructure reports were based on the state of schools, including structure, water and sanitation and electricity.
Noncedo Madubedube: A fighter for equal education
Noncedo Madubedube, the general secretary of Equal Education (EE), was first exposed to South Africa’s unequal education system at church.
She is the daughter of ministers in the Presbyterian Church of Africa in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, and there were Sundays when she attended services in school buildings because some of the church’s branches did not have a place of worship. It was at these schools that Madubedube, who attended a former model C school, would experience schools with poor infrastructure and appalling sanitation.
“We would go into schools in Zwide, New Brighton, Dasi and KwaMagxaki and all of these schools [were] in shocking conditions where clean toilets were like a luxury, school desks and furniture was shoddy; the boards were broken,” she says.
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WCED communications director Bronagh Hammond says the province is ready to get the school year started despite Covid delays.
More than 1.1 million pupils are expected to return to over 1,400 schools in the Western Cape on Monday.
11 000 children still need to be placed in classrooms in the Western Cape alone. Nationally the figure is 16 100, according to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
Bronagh Hammond, communications director of the Western Cape Department of Education speaks to Refilwe Moloto about school readiness as the 2021 academic year starts after delays due to Covid.