More resources will be required to include Grade R as a compulsory grade for schooling. This is according to the Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube.
She briefed the media in parliament yesterday on the implementation of the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act.
This after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s directive that the BELA Act must be implemented in its entirety.
Gwarube says it’s important to urgently get guidelines to public schools for the implementation of the Act, while new norms and standards are being developed.
Gwarube says she will approach the Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana, to appeal for more funding for Basic Education.
“And this is the case I intend to make to the Minister of Finance, to say since the president has commenced with this immediately, we are now under pressure to make sure that we can deliver compulsory Grade R.
I want there to at least be guidelines that are sent to the provinces and to schools, to be able to say how …