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Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: This is consistent with the advice of the World Health Organization, which argues for a balanced consideration of the educational needs of the child and trends in the development of the disease. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: What everyone does agree on, however, is that the health, academic and social development of learners must remain our foremost concerns. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: It is necessary to report that it was difficult to find consensus on the best approach, just as there are differing views among both international and local experts on the circumstances under which schools should be re-opened. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: These consultations provided important insights into the experiences of the different stakeholders in education, and produced a broad range of divergent views. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: It has also consulted with the Council of Education Ministers, representing the provincial education departments. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: Over the last few days, the Department of Basic Education has met with more than 60 organisations representing parents, school governing bodies, principals, educators, independent schools and civil society organisations. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
As South Africa approaches its peak of COVID-19 infections, we must take the cautious approach to prevent schools from becoming sites of transmission. https://t.co/xxe1HtCfho — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: Now, with the number of infections rising in several parts of the country, there have been calls for schools to be closed again. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: It was in balancing these imperatives that we adopted a cautious and phased return to schooling, beginning on 8 June with the return to school of learners in grades 7 and 12. On 6 July, learners from grades R, 6 and 11 returned to school. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: A major and lasting disruption to learning would have a devastating impact on the prospects of an entire generation of young people. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: In approaching the opening of schools, we have always said that the health and well-being of learners and educators is critical. We have also said that it is vital that the development and progress of learners is not impeded. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: Most economic activity has returned, some restrictions on movement have been lifted and schools and other educational institutions have resumed classes in a phased manner. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: Since the beginning of May, we have been undertaking a gradual easing of lockdown restrictions. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: We must do this, firstly, by taking practical steps to prevent the spread of the virus, and, secondly, by ensuring that we implement correct clinical guidelines and have the health infrastructure capacity to care for all those people who need treatment. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: Since the outbreak of the disease in South Africa, more than 6,000 people have succumbed to the virus. It remains our utmost priority to ensure that we do everything possible to minimise the loss of life. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: South Africa continues to have one of the lowest case fatality rates in the world, experiencing far fewer COVID-19 deaths than many countries with similar or even lower numbers of infections. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: However, we need to remain cautious and vigilant – and continue to follow strict prevention measures – to avoid another rise in infections. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: Although it may be too early to tell, this development provides some hope that the province may have passed the peak of infections. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: Even as the country braces for difficult weeks ahead, it is significant that more than half of those people who we know to have been infected have now recovered. We have also seen a levelling-off of infections in the Western Cape since the 3rd week of June. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: The coronavirus storm has indeed arrived, with the provinces of Gauteng, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal experiencing a rapid rise in infections. #StaySafe — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: As of this evening, the total number of confirmed cases stands at 408,052. South Africa now has the fifth highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world and accounts for half of all the cases in Africa. #StaySafe #CoronaVirusSA — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: The first issue is the re-opening of schools & the second is the management of resources that we have dedicated towards the fight against #COVID19. Since I last addressed the nation 11 days ago, more than 130 000 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
President #Ramaphosa: My fellow South Africans, I wish to address you this evening on two matters that are of great interest and concern to South Africans as we struggle to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. #StaySafe #CoronaVirusSA — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
Decisions about the reopening of schools must strike a difficult balance between the risk of learners contracting COVID-19 & the academic and social costs of prolonged closures. https://t.co/51ZPqIOY77 — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
#COVID19 | President @CyrilRamaphosa addresses the nation on progress in the national effort to contain the #coronavirus pandemic. #StaySafe https://t.co/lCxOOdhVna — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
The details of the Special Official Funeral will be communicated in due course. President Ramaphosa has once again offered his sincere condolences to the Mlangeni Family as well as the friends, comrades and associates of the Struggle hero countrywide and internationally. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
In terms of the Presidential declaration, the National Flag will fly at half-mast from the morning of Friday, 24 July 2020 until the evening of Wednesday, 29 July 2020, the day on which Bab’ Mlangeni will be laid to rest. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
Bab’ Mlangeni was awarded Isithwalandwe/Seaparankwe – the highest honour by the ANC for those who have made an outstanding contribution to the liberation struggle in 1992 – and received the Presidential Order for Meritorious Service: Class 1: Gold from President Mandela in 1999. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
The President participated in Bab’ Mlangeni’s birthday celebration last month in the company of, among other notable guests, President Thabo Mbeki, President Kgalema Motlanthe and Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi. — PolitiTweet.org
Presidency | South Africa 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA
Bab’ Mlangeni, passed away on Wednesday, 22 July 2020, at the age of 95, following an abdominal complaint. — PolitiTweet.org
