School fight heads to court amid charge closure is to ‘pacify unions’
DA to take state to court over concerns about detrimental effects on child development
24 July 2020 - 15:09
UPDATED 26 July 2020 - 23:27
The government will be taken to court after accusations that it pacified unions by deciding to close all public schools for four weeks, less than a month after it won a legal challenge to its decision to reopen the country’s economy along with it schools.
But things seemed to have changed and after intense pressure from teachers’ unions, President Cyril Ramaphosa (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2020-07-23-schools-to-close-until-covid-19-peaks/) announced last week that public schools would be closed until August 24, a move that will push the academic year beyond the end of 2020...
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