ANNEXURE B2

DECLARATION CONFIRMING COMPLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL HOSTEL(S)

[Declaration in terms of direction 10(2)(b)]

(To be completed by the principal, chairperson of the governing body, or their delegated official in respect of independent schools, and attached to Annexure B)

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

_____________________________________________________________ (Name of school),

hereby declare that the hostel(s) has/have complied with the health, safety and social distancing measures for COVID-19, set out in the DBE Standard Operating Procedures and the DBE Guidelines.

I further acknowledge that it is the responsibility of the principal and/or the school board to take all reasonable steps to comply with the health, safety and social distancing measures for COVID-19, set out in 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 its hostel(s) and the manner in which the hostel(s) operate/s following such reopening, 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____________________2021