Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane has reassigned some of the province’s heads of department to form a “crack team” in an effort to enhance the province’s operational capabilities and accelerate the execution of projects.
Eastern Cape schools are going to extreme lengths to be ready for the reopening of schools on Monday because they have received little to no assistance from the provincial education department. Fears over a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) have been realised despite the department backtracking on an earlier announcement that schools would be expected to procure their own PPE in the first term.