Thank you very much, Mr Worth, for the question that has been posed. Obviously overcrowding does contribute to the poor performance in that educators would not have the opportunity to pay particular individual attention to the learners. So, one of the consequences of overcrowding is a lack of attention to the learners and a lack of the kind of support that would be provided to the learners under normal conditions.
We have, as the Department of Basic Education, working very closely with the provinces, been trying to ensure that we reduce the educator-learner ratio significantly. We have succeeded in most provinces. However, a reality that confronts us is the fact that there is a huge migration that's occurring, particularly from rural areas, and it is intraprovincial and interprovincial. In other words, this takes place within a province, from rural to urban areas, as well as from one province to the other. For example, you will discover that many of the learners from the Eastern Cape are studying in the Western Cape because their parents are employed in Cape Town. This contributes to the overpopulation in township schools and a reduction of learners in the rural schools.
In conclusion, we have introduced a learning tracking system called the Learner Unit Record Information Tracking System, or Lurits. We have completed about 70% of the data on this. What this would do - this is by March next year - is that we would be able to punch in the name of a learner and get the learner's information of previous schooling in primary and high school, the subjects the learner did and the learner's performance report. This would also assist us in determining what the migration patterns are within districts and provinces. Thank you very much, Chairperson.