Load shedding continues to disrupt education during the school holidays

While schools are currently closed for the mid-year break, load shedding continues to cause serious disruption to education in the Western Cape as winter school and revision programmes continue through the break.

As matriculants count down the weeks until they sit for the National Senior Certificate exams, the mid-year break is a time used by most schools to conduct revision programmes.

However, the critical time that should be used to crunch in as much revision as possible has been hindered by load shedding.

Districts across the province have reported that load shedding is posing a serious challenge to the implementation of these revision programmes and for those who attend winter…

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