This visit followed after a meeting between the Select Committee, members of the provincial legislature and unions and other relevant stakeholders on the intervention tabled by the Minister of Basic Education on the National Council of Provinces in terms of section 100 (1)(b). The Committee also interacted with the MEC for Education in the Eastern Cape, Head of Department in the Eastern Cape and the coordinator of the intervention task team to solicit views and also to get a briefing on what led to the intervention.