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Basic Education Department: Teachers will not be forced to be vaccinated
As essential workers, educators will be included in phase two of South Africa’s vaccine roll-out.
FILE: The University of Oxford and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca have developed a COVID-19 vaccine. Picture: AFP.
JOHANNESBURG - The Basic Education Department won’t be putting teachers under pressure to get the COVID vaccine.
As essential workers, educators will be included in phase two of South Africa’s vaccine roll-out.
Teachers have been particularly hard hit by COVID-19, with more than 1,600 succumbing to the virus in recent months.
But the department’s director general Mathanzima Mweli said the law didn t allow them to force teachers to be vaccinated. ....

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