Deputy Speaker, giving quality public education to all South Africans will make our education very important. The total transformation of education, in
accordance with human dignity and equality, should also be regarded as important.
The actions that are outlined in the National Development Plan are also taken from the 2014 to 2019 Medium-Term Strategy Framework. It is important therefore to make use of the reports of the Auditor-General, in order to better the performance of our Department of Basic Education.
The oversight visits that are always paid to schools should not be a waste of time and money, but should bring about change to our education. In other words, these oversight visits should be meaningful, so that we better the Department of Basic Education.
Outcome 7, in respect of infrastructure and the national school nutrition programme is very, very important. Proper school infrastructure will always give dignity to the learners and teachers at school. The nutrition programme, in particular, has been helping our children that are coming from poor families. I can just imagine a child going to school with an empty stomach. Such a child cannot concentrate.
The building of modern schools, replacing the mud schools through Asidi should be fast-tracked because most of parents and families of the learners at schools in our rural areas are suffering because the infrastructure is not very good there. So, the infrastructure will always give dignity to both learners and the teaching staff.