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A worker sanitises a classroom. The Limpopo Coronvirus Command Council says it has received more than 700 applications from teachers claiming to have comorbidities that prevent them from returning to work on 6 July.It has only granted 400 teachers permission not to report for duty.The provincial education believes that some of the medical certificates are…

Three teachers injured, one driver dead following taxi-violence shooting (Supplied) Psychologists are being sent to counsel teachers and pupils at a school in Wartburg, KwaZulu-Natal after a staff taxi driver was shot dead.Three teachers aged between 40 and 53 sustained gunshot wounds during the incident, while the 35-year-old driver was declared dead at the scene.The…

A staff taxi transporting teachers has been shot at in Bruyns Hill in KwaZulu-Natal. One dead, three critically wounded and seven in a state of shock after Masijabule staff taxi transporting teachers was shot at.The shooting took place at Bruyns Hill in Wartburg.Education MEC Kwazi Mshengu is at the scene.The driver of a school staff…

A worker sanitises a classroom at a Johannesburg school. (GCIS) 11 Gauteng teachers and a pupil have tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of schools reopening on Monday. Gauteng Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi told the Provincial Command Council the schools have been disinfected.53 schools in the province will not open on Monday.Eleven teachers and a pupil have…

The impact of Covid-19 school closures on education in SAOn Sunday, Premier Sihle Zikalala announced that the planned return of staff to schools in the province had been delayed until Thursday as the education department works to distribute personal protective equipment (PPE) to all schools.He said some schools had to be thoroughly cleaned and that…