Motshekga says it's all systems go for 2021 academic year
Minister Angie Motshekga says schools will reopen on the 25th of January, with pupils returning to classrooms on the 27th.
She briefed the media from Pretoria yesterday on the Department's state of readiness.
She says all admissions for the new year have been finalised.
The Minister says learners will be given additional support through the government's employment initiative, as they prepare to reopen schools during the Covid-19 pandemic.
They'll need to make up for this year's curriculum, trimmed in response to the crisis.
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"Cabinet gave us almost 300 000 thousand young people to come and help assist us in schools. This is part of the President's presidential employment stimulus initiative to create 200,000 employment opportunities for education assistants."
"The teachers' assistants are going to help us in terms of revision and also catching up on what we have lost. And the general assistants will help also to deal with the infrastructure challenges that we have," she says.
The Department says government printers have been revealed as the source for the Physical Science paper leak during the matric exams. The initial source for the Maths exam leak is believed to have been a private printing company.
