Thank you, Mphephethwa. I am appealing to you to come to our rescue because there are these learned people who are lecturers at the institutions of higher learning, who do not indicate the different levels at which learning will be taking place when applications reach the universities.
But I think everything is going well now because there are different levels at universities as we speak, although there are some lecturers at the institutions of higher learning who are taking over the managerial duties. They do the sifting and decide which of the students are admitted to these institutions so that there can be a smaller number of learners in the lecture hall.
I do not know, hon Minister, how these managerial duties can be separated out from lecturing so that our learned lecturers need not perform managerial duties. Let the managerial duties be performed by the university's management - say the university announces that it needs 15 000 or 7 000 new students, then admission must follow that procedure. The lecturers should minimise their powers of intervention because they are just lecturers. Thank you.