Hon Chair, the question relates to water and sanitation backlogs in our schools. We currently have, out of our 30 000 schools, 1 307 that do not have water; and 536 that do not have water and sanitation. The provincial departments, through their school-building programmes, are dealing with this. Because of the emergency and serious nature of this programme, we have been able to get R66 million from the European Union, EU, to deal with that.
Last Friday I signed a partnership with the Coca-Cola Foundation-led consortium, which will also be assisting us with water and sanitation in 100 of these schools. We are working with the Departments of Water Affairs and of Energy to implement and manage the provision of water, sanitation and electricity in our schools. This is in line with the government's key objectives of delivering services to the public and schools of the poor.
Our department has also put in place the Accelerated School Infrastructure Delivery Initiative, and again this programme is focusing mainly on water, sanitation and electricity. We do hope that by 2014 we would have provided water and sanitation to all our schools in the country. Thank you.