Hon Speaker, Minister, I have seen first-hand how the constitutional rights to education for many children of the Eastern Cape have been constantly violated by a provincial education department that simply cannot fulfil its mandate.
The problems in this department are deeply entrenched, and I therefore wish the national department the best of luck in confronting a culture of complete unaccountability across all its different levels. The children of the Eastern Cape, many of whom are the most marginalised in our society, deserve far better than the treatment they have been given by the ANC administration in this province.
Minister, I therefore plead with you to be merciless in dealing with all those elements and people who have contributed to such a fundamental breakdown in the education system. As the ID, we will therefore be monitoring this intervention and ensuring that it finally leads to tangible improvements in the system. I thank you. [Applause.]