The Basic Education Department has announced that pupils will only return to school on the 8th of June.
Grade 7 and Grade 12 learners were initially going to go back to school on Monday 1 June.
This followed a meeting of the Council of Education Ministers (CEM) on Saturday to assess the state of readiness for reopening schools.
It emerged at this meeting that a substantial number of schools would not be ready for the planned reopening on Monday 1 June, despite tremendous progress having been made by most provinces, which overall reflected an 80 percent state of readiness.
The CEM then decided to still allow schools to reopen on June 1, but with school management teams, teachers, and non-teaching staff ONLY working to prepare for the arrival of pupils.
The department says it held meetings with the associations representing independent schools on Saturday and Sunday, and it was agreed on how they should proceed regarding the reopening of their schools. ANA
