Madam Deputy Speaker, I'd like to respond to two matters, and one was raised by the hon Wilmot James. We do agree with him that, indeed, we have a big challenge in this country in terms of absorbing the millions of students aged between 18 to 24 who are neither at work nor in any education institution, nor in training, and who do not have any form of disability.
Our department has already made a very strong commitment to the prioritisation of expanding and building the capacity of Further Education and Training colleges.
However, this is building upon what the department has already done in terms of a three-year commitment to the recapitalisation of FETs between the years 2007 and 2009. It is also because of this that Cabinet took a decision that FET colleges must become a national responsibility, but, at the same time, without abandoning their responsibility to respond to regional and local needs. To this effect, the department has established a transition oversight committee to oversee the transfer of responsibility from the provincial to the national Department of Higher Education and Training, as well as six technical committees that have provincial representation.
We hope that the DA, as it recognises the challenges, will play a constructive role in supporting this effort of having at least a million students in FET colleges by 2014.
On the second matter, I'd like also briefly to say to the ACDP, that we don't think it is very helpful to try and push us towards committing to teaching things about evolution because the ACDP's stance, basically, wants us to teach our children against evolution in a manner that actually mimicks the right-wing church movement in the United States.
If we are to deal with this matter, we must open our children to all sorts of point of views, whether it's evolution or other points of view, in a manner that is progressive and in line with our commitment to widening the horizons of our children rather than locking them into very narrow, right- wing religious discourses. Ngiyabonga. [Thank you.] [Applause.]