I hereby move without notice on behalf of the DA: That the Council -
1) recognises the Minister of Basic Education's intervention in the Eastern Cape;
2) notes that an intervention plan will be finalised by the end of June;
3) thanks the Minister for -
a) reappointing temporary teachers;
b) resuscitating the feeding scheme;
c) learner/teacher support materials and stationery which will be supplied by the end of May;
d) the temporary mobile classrooms at unsafe schools; and
e) the restoration of the scholar transport; and
4) calls on the Minister to inform members how the department plans to address the four-month "teaching backlog" from January to the end of April when learners could not get to school.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.