Chair, please give me back my minutes. Support grants have a positive impact on the wellbeing of families, particularly on increasing consumption levels of families.
In addition, South Africa has managed to eradicate cases of polio due to government's focus on providing better access to primary health care. Furthermore, statistics shows us that from 2001 malnutrition in children under five years declined from 25%, to 5,5% in 2009. Uyawubona loo mahluko ungako ngenxa ye-ANC? [Can you see that difference because of the ANC?] [Applause.] These achievements should encourage us to do more, Minister, especially in the poverty-stricken areas. We do want to say thank you to the ANC. [Interjections.]
The department identified priorities and set targets to be met by 2014. These have been identified to contribute towards government outcomes. I want to touch on the outcomes, but I'm not going to go through them. If they want this speech, they must go to ITC; it will help them in their workshop on understanding what we mean by the ANC. I'm only going to mention the topics.
The first one is quality basic education - we know what that is. You know, the graduates that are here today can tell you how they grew up. They don't know how they managed to get their degrees, because their mothers were domestic workers - Bantu education. It's the laws that these people, for 300 years ... [Interjections.]