Deputy Speaker, firstly, if this were a press conference, the Minister of Higher Education would be here. That it is not a press conference is unfortunate, because he only attends press conferences. He does not attend committee meetings. [Laughter.]
We are unable to run and provide seats for our kids in our education system. Is this what we want in South Africa, Deputy Minister? To date, we have been unable to provide better accommodation for our students. The department is unable to fill vacancies. Does it have the capacity to run a nationwide system that will also accommodate students with the problems that we have had during the year in terms of registration?
In KwaZulu-Natal, which the Deputy Minister talked about, this system is not working. Is this Minister not trying to centralise everything so that he has more power, obsessed as he is with a Stalinist approach of doing things in this country? [Laughter.] [Applause.]