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INTRODUCTION As government battles the scourge of COVID-19, and results of mass testing are dripping in, education as one of the key systems that drive sustainable development, emerges as an area that needs more work for any post-COVID19 reconstruction to undergird long-term societal resilience. The unprecedented early lockdown announced by President Ramaphosa, with its attendant slowing down of ‘official’ infection rates, indicate a possibility of a review of the education process for the teachers and occurrence for the learners. Yet there is now much work more work to be done for basic education institutions to resume normal schooling that should at the same time respond to the social effects of the crisis.   HOW COVID-19 AFFECTED BASIC EDUCATION The COVID-19 pandemic has hit basic education in an unprecedented scale. It may result in the redefinition of teaching as we knew it before the pandemic. It has disrupted the idea of teaching in respect of methods, way of doing ...

The advent of a post-COVID 19 world is an inevitability all of us should start dealing with. The management of the crises through the pandemic is a public affairs management project whose outcome will redefine life and its attendant faculties into posterity. The speed and reach of the virus to global destinations, its rapid human to human infection, and how it has made it difficult for international collaboration on its vaccination, makes it an unprecedented virus of seismic global proportions. As the COVID-19 wreaks havoc to national economies, the social fabric and creating worldwide fear and uncertainty, it is at the same time establishing a new order and disrupting global public health governance, and thus public affairs, as we know or knew them. Countries are experiencing convulsions out of which both a desire and compulsion for something new is an inevitability. The containment of humanity into its most basic domicile, home, in order to disrupt patterns that spread COVID-19, is...