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Crime Statistics: Education is not Immune
How ironic that on the eve of Women’s Month, the Minister of Police releases the crime statistics for the period 1 April 2019 to 30 March 2020, which, yet again, makes for horrific reading,…
August 03, 2020
Closure of schools: partial meeting of minds
The President’s announcement that schools are to close from 27 July to 23 August 2020 for a period of 4 weeks in anticipation of the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic is the culmination of a series of…
July 27, 2020
Closure of schools: meeting with minister of Basic Education
NAPTOSA, together with the other recognised education unions, met with the Minister of Basic Education and her Department on Friday 17 July 2020 to discuss the call for her to consider closing…
July 19, 2020
NSC consideration of continued opening of schools/closing schools during the COVID-19 virus peak
The National Standing Committee (NSC) of NAPTOSA met today in preparation for a meeting that the union will attend with the Minister of Basic Education tomorrow, 15 July 2020. The NSC considered a…
July 15, 2020
Annual Teaching Plans (ATPs) and Teachers’ Guidelines
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has issued, DBE CIRCULAR S3 OF 2020, that speaks to the DISTRIBUTION OF THE TEACHER GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS (ATPs) AND THE…
July 10, 2020
“Let's be COVID-19 Health Activists”
The COVID-19 has, like all crisis situations, brought out the best and tragically the worst in people. On the one hand we have banded together with single purpose to fight an enemy we did not know…
July 10, 2020