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

Notices

Directions regarding the full time return of learners to schools and measures to address, prevent and combat the spread of COVID-19 in the National Department of Basic Education, and Provincial Departments of Education, and all schools in the Republic of South Africa

7. School hostels

 

(1) A school hostel must—
(a) comply with the health and safety measures and requirements on COVID-19, referred to in DBE Standard Operating Procedures and the DBE Guidelines;
(b) in the case of a public school, in addition to paragraph (a), have all the COVID-19 essentials in place; and
(c) ensure that there is adequate ventilation, proper use of masks indoors, good health and hygiene practices, including the availability of adequate and soap and water resources or sanitisers.

 

[Direction 7(1) substituted by section 5 of Notice No. 952, GG46172, dated 4 April 2022]