Chairperson, I give notice that I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that on 4 October 2008 in Greater Taung Municipality, Pudumong Township in North West, Othusitse Leburu, an educator of 45 years at Joseph Saku Middle School decided to destroy himself and everything he had accumulated for his family by pouring petrol over himself and his house and setting everything alight;
2) also notes that on the morning of the same day friends and neighbours were with him at the unveiling of a tombstone at Dryharts, where he showed no symptoms of anger or of committing suicide;
3) acknowledges that the inside and outside of the house was completely burnt and that he burnt himself and the family home to ashes; and
4) calls on the government to work more closely with educators so as to observe and experience the overloading of work on educators and to try and get to the root of the problem which might help to stop other educators from killing themselves.