(1) With reference to the National School Safety Framework (NSSF) and the systems in place to combat violence in schools, how does her department deem such measures as being effective to deal with the violence;
(2) whether any improvements have been made to the NSSF since it was first published in 2015, to proactively counter the (a) heightened violence levels in schools recently and (b) changing nature of the violence in schools; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details;
(3) (a) how will her department ensure that schools in the rural areas, which are mostly always marginalised and neglected, also benefit fully from such systems and (b) what are the relevant details of the support that will be provided to (i) learners and (ii) teachers who experience the violence first hand?