Deputy Speaker and hon Lotriet, yes, this is a central application system. It is not a central admissions system. The universities will retain their right to choose which students they accept or do not accept, but they must do that within the framework of the transformation guidelines that, amongst other things, include the fact that, for instance, access to universities by poor students must be shared by all the universities. They must not be the burden of only the poorer universities while more elite universities only cherry-pick and do not actually share the burden of accepting students who come from poor backgrounds, who also require a lot of attention. This is just an example of one guideline.
We must ensure that autonomy also is not vulgarised and used as a means of exclusion. These universities, much as they are autonomous, their autonomy must be balanced with public accountability, as the 1997 Higher Education White Paper says. Thank you very much, hon Deputy Speaker.