SAHRC to monitor delivery of COVID-19 equipment at schools
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it will continue to monitor the delivery of protective gear to schools.
Grades 7s and 12s are expected to return to school on Monday after Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga postponed the resumption of the academic year by a week.
Commissioner André Gaum says they are not happy with the decision by the Western Cape to reopen its schools on Monday.
"Which we regard to be problematic in view of the fact that the constitution guarantees the equal enjoyment of the rights of all learners across the country."
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Gaum says the commission will now focus on the delivery of COVID-19 equipment at the various schools across the country.
"But secondly, we will make sure that the provincial departments comply with their duties that are now placed on them by the amendments.
"(They need) to put in place alternative measures for learners whose schools cannot open because the school are not COVID-19 ready, in order to safeguard the right to access to education for all learners."
The commission has also requested an urgent meeting with the government's coronavirus command council to discuss its concerns around some of government's responses to the pandemic.
