Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the House I shall move:
That this House -
(1) notes that although matric results were published more than two months ago, and the new school year is already well under way, 33 learners at Chatty Senior Secondary School in Port Elizabeth have still not received their results for the matric exams because their exam papers have been lost by the education department;
(2) also notes that the lives of these learners have had to be put on hold while they wait for this bungle to be sorted out and that they cannot get jobs or proceed to higher education, yet no serious attention is being paid to finding a way to solve this problem;
(3) acknowledges that this is indicative of the disorder that prevails within the Eastern Cape's department of education, where the Auditor-General has found the department to be riddled with fraud, unable to ensure that schools are run efficiently and unable to deliver basic services such as the school-feeding scheme; and
(4) realises that any improvement to the performance of our children in school needs to start with ensuring that basic administrative processes are in place, and that, in this regard, the Eastern Cape department of education, and many others across the country, have failed dismally.
I thank you.