Thank you, hon Deputy President, for your response. Apartheid has left us with a serious skills shortage. Yet, 13 years on, thousands of matriculants are leaving school each year. Only a small percentage of them are obtaining tertiary education through university, colleges and FETs. And areas like the Cape Flats and Khayelitsha and other areas in the Western Cape attest to the effect of this gap in skills transfer through an increase in drugs and moral decay within society.
What is being done to put in place catchment programmes specifically designed to afford ex-matriculants and unemployed youth further education and skills transfer for the job market, and when can we see the roll-out of such programmes?