Lesufi spreads blatant fake news over WCape schools

Lesufi’s statement on Saturday was not only patently false, it was also hypocritical because on the very same day the Gauteng Education Department’s HoD issued an almost identical letter to principals, to the one circulated by the WCED HoD on Friday.

Just this weekend reports emerged that the decision to close schools was due to pressure from unions. This reaffirms the DA’s position that President Cyril Ramaphosa would rather please unions at the expense of learning and teaching at our schools and underscores the ANC’s indifference to the fate of South Africa’s children.
The fact is that schools were closed despite empirical evidence from scientist saying that “learners are better at school than in communities and homes where [most of] the infections are actually taking place.”