Through you, Deputy Speaker, Minister, when you launched the National Education Collaboration Trust, you outlined six themes on which the trust will focus. Inter alia, you made a call for courageous and effective leadership. Minister, as a leader in your department, South Africans expect you to lead by example because you are responsible for shaping our education environment.
You have allowed a union by the name of the SA Democratic Teachers' Union, Sadtu, to dictate to you what can or cannot or what will or will not be done. Sadtu has dictated appointments and dismissals at most senior levels. It has halted the implementation of competency tests for exam markers. It has delayed any meaningful performance management systems for teachers. It refuses to accept minimum qualifications for principals. Minister, exactly how will the Trust facilitate ``courageous and effective leadership''? Thank you. [Time expired.]