Tag: Teachers

The Basic Education Department says it will not force educators to be vaccinated against their will.

Mpumalanga Department of Health Spokesperson Dumisani Malamule says they are confident that all the teachers will be vaccinated soon.

Mpumalanga faces challenges in vaccination of teachers

5 July 2021, 2:30 PM

The Mpumalanga Health Department has so far vaccinated about 30 000 of the 45 000 teachers in the province.

So far the Northern Cape Education Department has vaccinated more than 3 000 employees out of their target of more than 16 000.

The early closure of schools will help increase the vaccination of teachers

by Thabiso Malesele

29 June 2021, 1:11 PM

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says the early closure of schools will help increase the vaccination of employees in the ...

SA Childcare and ECD Owners SA recently wrote to the Minister asking her to prioritise them for inclusion in the vaccination programme for teachers.

Minister Lindiwe Zulu is failing to protect teachers against COVID-19: ECD Centres

28 June 2021, 12:38 PM

Independent Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres say Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu is failing to protect teachers in this sector ...

The situation turned into chaotic scenes in Bloemfontein on Wednesday with hundreds of teachers queuing outside the Gonyane Primary school hall without observing social distancing.

Vaccination programme poorly planned and implemented: Denosa

24 June 2021, 9:37 AM

The Democratic Nursing Organisation (Denosa) says the vaccination programme rollout has been poorly planned and implemented. The organisation says there ...

[File photo] The Johnson and Johnson vaccine has been proven to be highly effective against the coronavirus and is very safe.

Naptosa calls “anti-vaxers” to reconsider the vaccine’s safety

24 June 2021, 7:15 AM

The National Professional Teacher's Organisation, Naptosa, has called on educators who are so-called "anti-vaxers" - or have doubts over the ...

Provincial Education MEC, Kwazi Mshengu, says teachers are excited to get vaccinated.

KZN teachers heed call to get vaccinated

23 June 2021, 5:40 PM

Teachers in KwaZulu-Natal have heeded the call to get the coronavirus vaccine as number of teachers arrived early at the ...

Some learners are calling for the closure of all schools until the infection rate goes down, while others feel they have already missed out on a lot of learning time.

More Limpopo schools temporary closed due to COVID-19 infections

19 June 2021, 7:45 AM

More schools have been temporarily closed in Limpopo following positive coronavirus cases. The Selelo Primary School at De Vrede in ...

J&J has offered South Africa a batch of vaccines with a shelf life of three weeks.

Naptosa plans for COVID-19 vaccine rollout despite postponement

7 June 2021, 6:01 PM

The National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa says the sector is going ahead with the plan to receive the ...

Coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on children’s education around the globe

Teachers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 from April: Mkhize

26 February 2021, 7:00 AM

15 February 2021, 6:08 AM

Teachers will be vaccinated against COVID-19 from April this year. This was confirmed by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize during his ...

Learners at public schools have not been to school since December last year

Mixed reactions from parents on reopening of schools amid new variant

by Bongisipho Magcaba

Parents express mixed views about the reopening of public schools as government schools across the country open for learning on ...

NAPTOSA executive director Basil Manuel says teachers are also frontline workers.

NAPTOSA says teachers should also be part of first groups to get COVID-19 vaccine

by Nthabi Thipa

10 January 2021, 9:23 AM

The National Professional Teachers' Association of South Africa says it is unfortunate that government has not included teachers in the ...

Over 20 000 teachers who were granted concessions to work from home during the lockdown, are expected to return to school on Monday as the country moves to Alert Level 1.

NATU calls for extension period of substitute teachers

20 September 2020, 5:01 PM

The National Teacher's Union (NATU) has called on the Department of Basic Education to reconsider keeping substitute teachers in schools ...

Some 22 500 teachers were granted concessions to work from home as the country battled the coronavirus pandemic and substitute teachers were employed in their absence.

DBE issues notice for teachers working from home to return to work

19 September 2020, 6:37 PM

The Department of Basic Education has issued notice to all teachers who were granted concession to work from home during ...

Some teachers, who have been approved to work from home, say they have not been provided with the necessary resources to work remotely.

Concerns over concession leave granted to teachers

8 September 2020, 9:40 PM

Some educators, who have chronic ailments that are flagged as high-risk co-morbidities for the coronavirus, have raised concerns over the ...

[File Image] It is reported that more than 20,000 teachers are currently sitting at home.

Some schools still waiting for substitute and extra teachers – Naptosa

24 August 2020, 10:07 AM

The National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa) says a number of schools have raised concerns that they are ...

Parents at Mukula High School are accusing parents of stealing food belonging to learners.

Limpopo Education investigates allegations of teachers stealing from school nutrition programme

by Lerato Matlala

30 July 2020, 3:51 PM

The Limpopo Education Department has deployed a team to the Mukula High School in Xikhumba village outside Giyani to investigate ...

Prof. Karim, says supermarket employees and healthworkers have a higher risk of getting infected in the workplace than teachers.

Teachers not at higher risk of COVID-19 than general public: Prof Karim

27 July 2020, 1:21 PM

Prof. Salim Abdool Karim, Chairperson of the COVID-19 Ministerial Advisory Committee, says teachers don't have increased risk of being infected ...

Motshekga says provinces such as Gauteng and the Western Cape have already started with the process following a number of teachers not being able to go back to school due to comorbidities.

Motshekga worried dropout rates will spike this year

6 July 2020, 4:11 PM