Deputy Chairperson, I would like to thank hon Worth. The message and plea has been very clear since 2009 - that teachers must be at school, on time and teaching. At the beginning of this year, three teacher federations issued a joint statement committing themselves to doing that. We now focus on the learners themselves and the school management teams to ensure that they should never ever allow anyone to disrupt learning.
With regard to these organisations you have alluded to, I know that the ANC Youth League president, for instance, went to a school in Westonaria. I went to the meeting of the national executive committee, NEC, of the ANC Youth League. I said to them that no one is allowed to disrupt learning, and that we will not make any exception to that rule under any circumstances.
The account they gave me was that, indeed, they also commit that they shall never disrupt learning. The account they gave for their visit to Westonaria was that the school was in a totally chaotic state on the day they went there. The principal of the school apparently reported for work at 10:00. He only rolled into the schoolyard at 10:00. The teachers pleaded with him to get the learners to settle down and learn because they were, from the account, jumping on desks and so on. So I said to them that that must be the very last time they go and play that kind of role. If there is any need to motivate any learner, they should do that on a Saturday, not during school hours.
So there is a commitment to that end. I am not aware of the SACP visiting any schools to disrupt any learning at any time, but I can speak about the ANCYL in the specific instance when they visited a school in Westonaria. I can account for that because I did engage them on it. Thank you.