Independent schools struggling to keep their doors open due to Covid-19 lockdown
(World News South Africa)

By Sheree Bega and Kashiefa Ajam Many independent schools are struggling to keep their doors open as parents, hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, battle to pay school fees. Schools have been forced to slash teachers` salaries to make up for the shortfall, and in fee-paying public schools, teachers and other auxiliary staff have alsobeen retrenched and had pay cuts. “It`s a major problem,” said Ebrahim Ansur, general secretary of the National Alliance of Independent School Associations (Naisa), which has 1 400 members. “Currently, what`s carrying the schools is the drastic reduction in teachers` salaries. Whether the schools will be able to sustain this... Things are very, very tenuous for the...