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#EducationMatters Basic education minister, Angie Motshekga, is holding a media briefing about the reopening of schools tomorrow
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Motshekga says between Dec & Feb there is 159 teachers that have died from Covid.
The overall stats of teachers who have died 1 169
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Motshekga says there is about 16 117 learners that are yet to be placed in schools. The demand is mainly for grades 1 & 8 learners
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Motshekga also mentions that she was sick with Covid.
" I had a severe attack. Ndiyayihlonipha," she says
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DG Mathanzima Mweli to give the status of readiness.
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Mweli says the 2nd survey by the 5 teacher unions on the readiness of schools to open tomorrow has also helped the department in its planning & filling the gaps
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Mweli says some schools have been affected by floods. He says those schools that learners cannot reach bcos of floods arrangements have been made that they are accommodated in other facilities
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Mweli says schools will continue with the rotation systems in order to allow for social distance in overcrowded schools
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Mweli says those learners who have not been paced esp Gr 1 & 8 will be placed by the end of the week @mailandguardian

Mweli says there should be no school without water. He says provinces are making arrangements around the provision of water & sanitation
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Luvuyo Bono to go over the investigation into the leak of the Maths & Science papers
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BREAKING: Bono says the investigation report has found that the 2020 exam was not compromised
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The investigation has revealed that the leaks was not widespread even though it was shared on whatsapp
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(This sort of sets the tone of what can be expected out of Umalusi's briefing tomorrow if the exam has not been compromised bcos of the leaks) @mailandguardian

Hugh Amoore who was part of the investigation task team is going through the process followed to investigate the leaks
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Amoore says the Maths paper 2 was circulated in whatsapp groups to 236 candidates across the country.
For the Physical Science paper 2 the learners were sent screenshots on whatsapp groups & reached 62 candidates
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Amoore says they also did investigative marking & that process uncovered that the scores of some of the learners in the whatsapp groups were higher than expected for Maths paper
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Amoore says however there was no suggestion that the candidates benefitted from prior access of the question paper.
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Amoore says the statistical analysis has shown that there has been no unusual pattern of performance in the 2 subjects as a result of the leaks
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Amoore says the investigation did not uncover widespread of the leaks & therefore the exam was not compromised at all.
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Amoore recommendations are that some of the learners their results will be blocked following further investigation
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Some of the recommendations from the investigation.
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Recommendations
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