Chair, the member is not accurate. While we agree with him that our drop our rate after the basic education part which is from grade one to 9 is quite alarming and disturbing. But as a country, we boast that we have almost universal environment at the basic education level. W start experiencing challenges when it goes to grade 10 to 12. So, the falling of children in pit latrines has nothing to do with the fact that we lose more than 30% of learners between grade 10 and 12. And, we have done an investigation with Stats
SA to try and understand what the causes for those high dropout rates are at that FET phase. Amongst others, what has come out of our studies is problems of parenting which has much more to do with the violence, if I can say that, because young people by the time they are in grade 9, they are teenagers and if they don't have strong parental support, they do what they want. But the other major problem, which is our concern and we have picked up and we acknowledge it is the poor foundation that by the time they go to FET phase, they are not coping. So, the Komape story is unlinked because at that level, we have full registration. So, the problems are different but we acknowledge them and if we had time, I would say what the interventions we are doing are. Part of the interventions we are doing was to look at their progression policy to see if indeed we can encourage more learners to study. We have agreed in this term also is to ramp up at the foundation phase because it is a deficit that children grow up in the system which make it difficult for them to finish at the FET phase. That is the answer and as I said, if we had time I would explain fully what the interventions are but I agree with the member that there is a problem of dropout but not at the Komape level but at the FET phase.