(1) Whether he and/or his department have been informed about the controversy about and opposition to the race-based admission requirements for studying at the Univer-sity of Cape Town (UCT); if so, what is his department’s policy in respect of the use of race as a criterion for admission of students to study in certain fields at UCT; (2) whether he and/or his department (a) have conferred or (b) will confer with the university authorities in this regard; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (3) whether consideration will be given to replacing the admission requirement of race as a criterion with class-based or social criterion; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?