Chairperson, regarding the question of assessment, I am not aware of teachers having said to us that they don't want to be assessed. We need to admit upfront that the assessment tools of government itself, which have been put in place and agreed to at the Labour Relations Council, have not been effective on the part of government.
Unions have never refused to allow assessment procedures. I don't want to blame unions where they are not wrong. The weakness has been on our side. That is why we are improving our assessment tools, so that they will work. We are working on it. It is not that unions are refusing to be assessed.
On the question of disruptions, at the beginning of the year all our teacher unions, nationally, came and we are getting to an agreement with them on labour peace. As the department we have to clear things on our part which are sources of conflict. They have committed themselves to working hard and making sure that they can manage their workers. We are very tough on them. We are entering into a memorandum of agreement. I can assure you that we will have labour peace. We won't be giving parents excuses. We have never given them excuses. I am honest: It is not the weakness of the teacher unions but of the system, where teachers were not properly evaluated. We are working on it and correcting it.