Thank you, Mr Speaker. Hon President, if there is a problem in any province or any municipality and people hear that there is going to be an intervention by national government, usually people have hope that things are going to change for the better. But the experience regarding this particular intervention is that the people of Limpopo had to go to court to get school books.
In the Eastern Cape, the doctors were not paid for five months. The teachers went on strike in the Eastern Cape instead of teaching after the intervention. So, my question is: What tangible results, not progress - tangible results - are there which we can talk to as a result of this particular intervention, particularly in the Eastern Cape, where the chaos led to substantial downtime and loss of learning time owing to the teachers' strike? Will recovery of the lost time be negotiated with unions so that learners can make up class lessons and catch up with the syllabus?