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Public school teachers return to work, dealing with COVID-19 loss of colleagues
JOHANNESBURG - Public school teachers are returning to work on Monday to prepare for the official reopening on 15 February and many will be faced with the reality of losing their colleagues to COVID-19.
The start of the 2021 academic calendar was pushed back by two weeks to deal with rising coronavirus cases.
Teachers have been hit hard by the pandemic, with unions saying that over 1,300 of their members succumbed to the virus since last year.
A Cape Town school principal who lost staff members to COVID-19 describes having to deal with the losses.
COVID-19 PTSD ‘exploding’ amongst educators, says Naptosa Teachers around the country were grieving the loss of colleagues while anxiously preparing for the return of pupils amid the second wave of COVID-19. FILE: A teacher sanitises the hands of a pupil returning to school in 2020. Picture: Gauteng Provincial Government.
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JOHANNESBURG – Many public school teachers who returned to work on Monday may be faced with an overload of responsibilities as the Basic Education Department begins the process to replace their colleagues who died of COVID-19 over the festive season.
Unions said that they lost more than 1,300 educators in the last year, many of them over the holidays.