Speaker, indeed, it is not only as a department but also as a sector that we have learned our lessons. As a national department our responsibility is to monitor and advise. The Constitution does not allow us, by law, to go and interfere in the work of the province, and that is why we ask for permission from the NCOP and everybody else when things go wrong and put forward a case on why we want to go and intervene.
On an ongoing basis through the Council of Education Ministers, CEM, we do give reports to provinces, monitoring and advising them on what is happening. That is as far as we can go as the national department. What this has taught us also - both as a province and a national department - is to use the reports that are always shared at the CEM for provinces to avoid the catastrophe that is currently occurring in Limpopo. Through this intervention, provinces themselves have begun to take seriously some of the warning signs because the problems in Limpopo and Eastern Cape have been a long time coming. They have been reported at every CEM, but our power as the national department goes as far as saying, ``Here is a problem; deal with it. If you don't deal with it, then don't deal with it.'' That's the unfortunate part of it all. [Interjections.]