Hon Speaker, I think it needs to be taken further. When the Minister announced the annual results of the national assessment in July 2011, she gave an indication that all school principals and deputies would in future enter into performance contracts with clear targets.
We supported that indication because it would help to identify principals with proper management skills. It would further identify principals who have the capacity to help in the assessment of educators, where such principals are heads. It would help in the proper learnership programmes. Our question is whether the Minister has gone on with the implementation of that and how far that has happened.
Secondly, we would like to know whether there has been any consultation with various structures, like the Principals' Forum, principals associations and the unions.