But you, hon member from the IFP, more than anyone else, should understand that as we look at our environment we must recognise the enormous disparities: the differences between those schools that are better resourced and those that are under-resourced, and the enormous pressures that teachers face when they have to teach a classroom of more than 40 learners. Notwithstanding this, we tend to generalise and say that all educators are betraying the future of our children, whereas thousands upon thousands of educators spend many hours under those difficult circumstances, ensuring that they provide quality education.
The leadership of that union that you referred to indeed has most of its members in our schools, making a difference to the life of that rural child, the rural poor. [Applause.]
What is it that we are going to do? We are going to look at the issues of safety and security; it is not only about fences. We have already engaged with the SA Police Service to ensure that a thousand schools in each province are linked to a police station ...