(1) What she meant by her statement in her department’s Annual Performance Plan that a country that chooses to hide its heritage and history from its children takes the risk of having them repeat the mistakes, especially her claim that history has been hidden from our children; (2) on what bases did she make the statement in her department’s Strategic Plan for 2016 to 2020 that there exists an emerging priority to offer history as a compulsory subject in all grades; (3) (a) who is undertaking the research on countries offering history as a compulsory subject and the impact thereof, (b) what is the time frame for the specified research, (c) what are the terms of reference for the research and (d) what are the details of the research findings on which she based the statement made in her department’s Annual Performance Plan for 2015-16 that research indicates that when taught as a subject, history has a number of positive effects including contributing to nation building, national pride, patriotism, social cohesion and cultural heritage; Friday, 24 April 2015 489 INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO 11 - 2015 (4) whether she will commit to undertaking (a) public consultation and (b) quality assurance by Umalusi before (i) making any changes to the history curriculum or history textbooks, and/or (ii) making history compulsory in Grades 10, 11 and 12, if so, what are the relevant details of this planned consultation and (c) by when does she envisage to make a decision on this matter; (5) whether she has costed the process that might result in new history textbooks and compulsory learning of history; if not, whether such costing will be done; if so, what are the relevant details of her findings?