South African Grade 7 and 12 students go back to school as lockdown restrictions ease. At the Winnie Mandela secondary school in Tembisa, Ekhuruleni, 234 students are back in class for the first time since March 18. Since recording its first virus case on March 5, Africa's most modern nation has reported nearly 46,000 infections and 952 deaths, registering at least 1,000 new infections daily in recent days.