2020 remembered for fight to save academic year in SA The spread of the virus saw the education sector divided on how to save the academic year during a pandemic. FILE: Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga monitoring the start of matric exams at Sekano-Ntoane High School on Soweto on the morning of 5 November 2020. Picture: Twitter/@DBE SA
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JOHANNESBURG - The year 2020 will be remembered as the year schools had to face the harsh reality of possibly losing the entire academic year.
Government was forced to close schools in a bid to contain the surge in COVID-19 infections.
The spread of the virus saw the education sector divided on how to save the academic year during a pandemic.
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