16 January 2022
KZN Department of Education MEC Kwazi Mshengu says he is confident that all schools will be ready to open this week.
Teachers are returning to school on Monday, two days ahead of pupils who will return on Wednesday.
Speaking during an update on school readiness on Friday, Mshengu said: “All of our over 6000 schools in the province will be ready on the effective schooling day of the 19th. We have done so much work to prepare our schools so that we are able to make sure that on the first day, it is the first day of effective teaching and learning,” said Mshengu.
He added that the department was focusing on a number of issues including storm-damaged schools.
Mshengu said since December, KZN has been experiencing inclement weather. .“There are 186 schools that have been affected, 90 of them require serious attention in terms of deployment of mobile classrooms because a number of their classrooms have been affected.”
Mshengu said the department is working hard to make the provision of mobile classrooms to those schools.
Source : IOL
