Out of 23 675 schools, 23 100 are ready to open on Monday.All schools in four provinces are ready to reopen.The Department of Education is in the process of revising the 2020 school calendar year.Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has admitted to having "sleepless nights" about when to reopen South Africa's schools, which has been…
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga. (GCIS) Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has postponed her address on the state of readiness of schools to reopen.This comes as Grade 7 and 12s are expected to return to school on Monday.There has been widespread opposition from unions to the reopening of schools.Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has…
Education unions and School Governing Bodies (SGBs) maintain the education system is not ready for the reopening of schools.Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is set to brief the nation on Sunday evening.SGBs and unions flagged their concerns with the minister in Saturday meeting.Education unions met with Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Saturday in a…
'Don't stand in way' of those who want to return - Motshekga confident schools are ready to openLimpopo, the Northern Cape and North West are some of the provinces experiencing problems with deliveries, which the education department was monitoring On Thursday, Motshekga visited three schools in Gauteng - Seshegong Secondary School in Olivenhoutbosch, Ivory Park Secondary…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have