Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)

Notices

Directions regarding the re-opening of schools and measures to address, prevent and combat the spread of COVID-19 in the National Department of Basic Education, all Provincial Education Departments, all Education District offices and all Schools in the Republic of South Africa

1. Definitions

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In these directions, a word or expression bears the meaning assigned to it in the Disaster Management Act or in the Regulations, and, unless the context indicates otherwise—

"certificate"

means a certificate issued in terms of direction 6;

"Department of Health Guidelines"

means the Guidelines for symptom monitoring and management of essential workers for COVID-19 related infection, issued by the Department of Health in April 2020, accessible through the following link: https://www.saiosh.co.za/news/502409/Guidelines-for-symptom-monitoring-and-management-of-essential-workers-for-COVID-19-related-infection.htm;

"Disaster Management Act"

means the Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002);

"ECD"

means a learner in Grade R or lower in a school;

[Definition inserted by section 2 of Notice No. 304, GG43381, dated 1 June 2020]

"education department"

means the department established by section 7(2) of the Public Service Act, 1994 (Proclamation No. 103 of 1994), which is responsible for education in a province;

"head of department"

has the meaning assigned to it in the Public Service Act;

"Minister"

means the Minister of Basic Education;

"offices"

includes the education department, its district offices including any other office within the jurisdiction of the head of department and the National Department of Education

"official"

includes—

(a)	circuit Managers;

(b)	district directors;

(c)	provincial educator performance managers;

(d)	provincial whole school evaluation supervisors;

(e)	Chief Education Specialists;

(f)	Deputy Chief Education Specialists;

(g)	health and social Work professionals in schools;

(h)	National School Nutrition Programme Directors;

(i)	District National School Nutrition Programme Managers or Coordinators;

(j)	volunteer workers and food handlers;

(k)	Chief food handlers;

(I)	provincial and district school health programme managers;

(m)	HIV or AIDS life skills education programme managers;

(n)	non-teaching staff, including administrative and general support workers;

(o)	school principals;

(p)	school heads of department; and

(q)	educators;

"permit"

means a permit issued in terms of direction 6;

"platooning"

means schools or a schooling system in which two separate sets of teachers and pupils use the same school building, one set in the morning and the other set in the afternoon;

"principal"

means an educator appointed or acting as the head of a school as contemplated in the South African Schools Act;

"school"

has the meaning assigned to it in the South African Schools Act;

"South African Schools Act"

means the South African Schools Act, 1996 (Act No. 84 of 1996);

"state of disaster"

means the national state of disaster, declared by the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 15 March 2020 in terms of section 27(1) of the Disaster Management Act; and

"the Regulations"

means the Regulations made in terms of section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act and published under Government Notice No. R. 480 in Government Gazette No. 43258 of 29 April 2020, as amended by the Regulations published under Government Notice No. R.608, in Government Gazette No. 43364 of 28 May 2020.