The District-Director indicated that there had been no CAPS training for teachers because SADTU had refused the training. There had been CAPS training workshops in the past but these were disrupted by SADTU in the Province. Challenges with LTSM were partly due to the new system of central procurement. There had been challenges with the publishers not keeping up with the demand. The District had too few subject advisors to go around and advised that schools submitted written requests for subject advisors to visit. The MEC had visited the District and launched the QLTC but this was again disrupted by unions who did not recognise the MEC. There had been no cooperation from unions in respect of QLTC. The District would also look into the issue of the Physical Science teacher and address this as soon as possible. The Department also cautioned that extra classes should not be used for new topics to be taught or introduced; it should be used mainly for revisions of previous work. The Department would further ensure that with the next training workshops planned that all teachers who had no training were targeted. According to the departmental records QLTC was never launched in the District. The Department would work in conjunction with the District to ensure that at least one temporary teacher was deployed to the school in the interim. The Department further reiterated that ANA was used as a tool to assess education and the results needed to be analysed to provide the necessary assistance to teachers.