Hon Chair, the IFP notes with concern that in the education district of Ingwavuma, a number of section 21 schools have not, to date, received their annual allocations from the provincial department of education.
What is more worrying is the fact that some of these schools are schools which have been declared no-fee schools. What an irony. These schools indeed have no money to run their day-to-day activities. We urge the national Ministry to investigate this unacceptable state of affairs before the provision of basic education suffers further damage. I thank you.
Mr Chairman, I certainly didn't want to interrupt the hon Mpontshane in his second statement of the afternoon.
Is that a point of order?
This is a point of order, Mr Chairman, yes. As I say, I didn't want to interrupt the hon member in his second statement of the afternoon, but I do believe that it is in fact a Rule of the House that a member can only make one statement. Consequently, the IFP member in making two statements was out of order.
We will come back to that one. We will note the point of order.