Deputy Speaker, Cope supports the Bill on that there are serious problems in South Africa today and are not challenged. The Eastern Cape must be cited as one of the provinces that contribute to the problems we face as a country. Although the largest amounts of our annual budgets go to education, the Eastern Cape is one of the provinces that lead in respect of: Firstly, South Africa occupying the last position in Maths and Sciences, even around the lowest and poorest provinces of our subregions such as Swaziland, Mozambique, etc.
Secondly, the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index currently rates South Africa at position 132 out of 144 countries. Both human resources and human resource development are neither properly done nor not. Above all, the fact that infrastructural development literally plays the second fiddle means there is a problem. Now, put together what Cope says is that we cannot really allow this because hundreds of schools need either to be build there or to be renovated, etc. We are absolutely unhappy albeit that finances and budgets are there, but the province is really unable to move forward. We, of course, look forward to work very hard in order to save South Africa. We therefore need some emergency ... and we support this Bill. I can say that we are quite happy to be able to work together and look forward to save. Thank you. [Applause.]