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Learners compliance with health, safety and social distancing requirements during the reopening of schools to ensure safety of learners at Rev. A Mapheto Primary School in Tembisa.(Photo: GCIS) The Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to allow all of its pupils to return to school.The association is also worried about pupils…

(Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images) The department's amended regulations allow schools to apply for a deviation to allow for the phasing of other grades.Private schools have already started applying.Isasa wrote to the department to ask it to consider allowing schools to notify them instead of applying.The Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (Isasa) says it…

By Adam Vaughan David King has founded an independent scientific advisory groupNIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Ima The UK government’s decision to outsource coronavirus contact tracing to private call centre operators including Serco has been branded “bewildering” by an independent group of scientists set up in parallel to the government’s official science advisers. The “independent Scientific…