Pretoria \u2013 The Department of Basic Education has given permission to schools across the country to take two days off on April 28 and 29 as part of Easter holidays.<\/p>\n
According to the schools\u2019 calendar, the two days are not part of the school holidays. However Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said the department had received requests from schools to be allowed to take the two extra days for Easter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe planning was disruptive and the schools asked to be allowed to take two days and compensate those days during June or September holidays,\u201d Motshekga said.<\/p>\n
The department\u2019s Director-General, Bobby Soobrayan, also acknowledged that the school calendar was disruptive, but emphasised that the two days will be compensated and schools had made a commitment to this.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t expect learners, especially those staying in hostels to leave for Easter Holidays and come back for two days and leave again for another holiday. In future, we will ensure that we keep an eye on potential disruptions,\u201d Soobrayan said. – BuaNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pretoria \u2013 The Department of Basic Education has given permission to schools across the country to take two days off on April 28 and 29 as part of Easter holidays. According to the schools\u2019 calendar, the two days are not part of the school holidays. However Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said the department had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-50","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-education","8":"tag-pretoria-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}