Thank you, Madam Speaker, and Minister. We have information that the MEC in Gauteng, for example, has essentially conceded to our spokesperson that in schools in poorer areas, it's not being implemented because teachers who belong to SA Democratic Teachers' Union are fundamentally unhappy, not only with the stipend, but also with what they say are some unresolved issues from the negotiations in the Bargaining Council in June. In KwaZulu-Natal it began pretty quickly and then seems to have slowed down, if not ground to a halt in certain parts. In fact, in five of the nine provinces this is not happening properly.
Now, I appreciate that this is a difficult matter but, at the end of the day, it's the management of the teaching in the classroom that needs to be tightly controlled. I wonder if the Minister could undertake to actually go into the stuff in detail because it's already September. Apparently, issues that are outstanding from the Bargaining Council in June include the amount of money teachers are being paid to work overtime. They are resisting doing this stuff in large parts of the country.
One accepts what the Minister says, but one doesn't just want to accept that everything is fine. The person at the top doesn't always know or necessarily get the right information about exactly what is going on classroom by classroom around South Africa. I wonder if the Minister could, firstly, comment on that and, secondly, just undertake to investigate this thing a bit more thoroughly because the information I have actually shows that there is quite a significant problem in many parts of South Africa.