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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says South African teachers and pupils have lost an entire term out of the school year as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown.
She told a media briefing on Monday that this would require the curriculum to be adjusted in order to catch up.
Motshekga said the lockdown imposed in late March in response to the Covid-19 pandemic had seen jobs lost, families "traumatised", and the education system come to a standstill.
For schools to reopen, a "new environment" had to be created, said the minister.
On Sunday, Minister Motshekga announced a one-week delay in sending grade 7 and grade 12 pupils back to school after education unions objected.
They said many schools had not yet been fully provided with necessities that would stop the spread of the virus.
Despite the Minister’s declaration that learners in grade 7 and 12 would now only return on the 8th of June, schools in the Western Cape began opening classrooms for the two grades in question, as planned on the 1st of June.
One of Nelson Mandela Bay’s biggest high schools also held an orientation for its grade 12 learners on Monday.
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