EFF gives Basic Education Minister 7 days to close down schools or be forced to do

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Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) gives Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekgoa a week to close schools amid a rapid raise of Covid-19 infections or be forced to close.

The opposition party leader Julius Malema said these words during press briefing on Thursday where he also accused the Minister being AWOL since the release of Matric results. He accused her not being too concerned of the new of infections mostly in poor public schools.

“Schools must close, and they must close with immediate effect because our children are going to die. We give the minister seven days to close schools, failure to do so, we’ll have to close schools ourselves as the EFF” said Malema.

The country has recently been recording daily infections of over 5 000.

Learners were on goin to schools rotationally and the Basic Education had said that they plan to open schools in primary level to full time classes to all learners starting from July.

But the EFF’s sentiments were also shared by the Educators Union of SA (Eusa) which has called for the closure of all schools in the country after reports of an increase in Covid-19 infections among pupils and teachers.

Over 1 000 learners have been reported to being tested positive for Covid-19 in the past week in Gauteng.