Deputy Speaker, through you to the Deputy Minister, the lack of accountability is at the very core of most of the problems in our education system. The SA Democratic Teachers' Union, Sadtu, is determined to avoid accountability at all costs. It refused to accept the performance contracts in 2008, and it referred them to the bargaining council. Four years later, Sadtu still refuses to accept these accountability mechanisms.
The Minister has been public in her support for these contracts. Also very public has been reporting that the President has forced her to back down to avoid alienating the unions ahead of Mangaung. [Interjections.] How exactly are you and the Minister going to persuade the President and Sadtu of the dire need for meaningful performance monitoring and accountability mechanisms in our schools? [Applause.]