ANNEXURE C2

DECLARATION CONFIRMING COMPLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL

[Declaration in terms of direction 7(2)(b)]

(To be completed and attached to Annexure A, in respect of independent schools)

(To be completed by the principal, chairperson of school board, or their delegated official)

I, _________________________________________ (Name and surname), the principal/chairperson of the school board/their delegated official (delete whichever is not applicable), of

_____________________________________________________________ (Name of school),

hereby declare that the school has complied with the health, safety and social distancing measures for COVID-19, set out in section 5 of the DBE Standard Operating Procedures and the DBE Guidelines.

I further acknowledge that it is the responsibility of the principal and the school board to take all reasonable steps to comply with the health, safety and social distancing measures for COVID-19, set out in section 5 of the DBE Standard Operating Procedures and the DBE Guidelines.

I further accept that any civil liability that may arise from the school’s decision to re-open and the manner in which it operates following such re-opening, shall fall exclusively on the school and that the relevant Department of Basic Education and Provincial Departments of Education shall bear no liability in this regard.

Signed at ___________ on this _____________ day of____________________2020