Hon Chairperson, I hereby give notice on behalf of the DA that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that while according to the national Minister all is well in the Department of Basic Education, in the Eastern Cape there are 2 367 or 42% of the section 20 schools in the province without stationery and handbooks, and the Department of Basic Education lost its court battle for awarding the tender to the wrong company;
2) further notes that superintendent-general Adv Modidima Mannya admitted in the press that he has not even placed the order and if placed immediately, delivery would take six weeks, which would mean two terms without learning aids for thousands of scholars;
3) finally notes that since the national Department of Basic Education's intervention in the Eastern Cape department of education administration in early March 2011, very little has happened; and
4) therefore requests that the national Minister immediately makes a personal exigency intervention for immediate delivery as we were told at an exhibition of the Department of Basic Education last week, prior to the department's Budget Vote, that books were available and that we must just provide the names of the schools.