President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on developments in South Africa’s risk-adjusted strategy to manage the spread of Covid-19 from the Union Buildings in Pretoria, 12 July 2020. Picture: GCIS
The party in a statement on Wednesday said, the four-week closure – as announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in a national address last Thursday night – had yet to be published in the Government Gazette. “An announcement by the President is not a law and cannot create rights and obligations in law,” Bozzoli said, “Nevertheless, the Minister of Education has treated the announcement as if it were handed down on stone tablets. Provincial education MECs have been forced to run their departments as if this speech was law.”
Nonetheless Bozolli pointed to government’s move to close schools again, as having “elicited criticism from various sectors of society.” The closures also “placed an unexpected additional burden on many parents,” she added, who “either had to arrange childcare at the last minute, or postpone returning to work.”
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