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Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)NoticesDirections 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 Africa6. Learners with special educational needs |
(1) | Officials must be provided by the Provincial Department of Education with appropriate personal protective equipment, including protective clothing, where such provision is necessary. |
(2) | [Direction 6(2) deleted by section 4 of Notice No. 952, GG46172, dated 4 April 2022] |
(3) | Written communication for blind learners, as well as those who are Deaf-blind, must be through Braille. |
(4) | The Provincial Department of Education must, at a minimum, provide the following personal protective equipment to learners with visual and hearing impairments: |
(a) | Face shields, in the case of blind learners; |
(b) | cloth face masks, in the case of low vision learners, teachers and support staff; and |
(c) | face shields, in the case of teachers, support staff and learners in schools for the deaf. |