Chairperson, of the 500 schools in the 9 provinces that are part of the Dinaledi Schools Project, only schools from four provinces, that is the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Limpopo, made it onto the list of the 10 best state schools.
In the assessment that was done on the impact of Dinaledi schools, I want to know from the Minister whether any reasons were found why, in general, schools in the Western Cape are achieving better results than schools in other provinces, and whether her department is going to provide more support and resources to the schools in the other five provinces to ensure that there is a drastic improvement in matric results, so that very soon we have schools in all nine provinces appearing on the top 10 list.
UNGQONGQOSHE WEMFUNDO EYISISEKELO: Sihlalo, ubuke washo nje. Baba Mfundisi noma lungu,izikole eziyikhulu eziphezulu azihambelani neDinaledi, manje umhlonishwa uthatha ufaka into nje engahlangani neDinaledi uyayihlohla nje indaba yezikole eziyikhulu ezihamba phambili, azihambelani. Uma ufuna sixoxe ngezikole eziyikhulu asixoxe ngazo, uma ufuna sixoxe ngeDinaledi asixoxe, singazihlanganisi zingahlangani. Baba ngiyabonga. (Translation of isiZulu paragraph follows.)
[The MINISTER OF BASIC EDUCATION: Chairperson, like you said before, Reverend or hon member, the top 100 schools have nothing to do with the Dinaledi Schools Project. The hon member is just confusing the issues. The top 100 performing schools have nothing to do with the Dinaledi Schools Project. If you want us to talk about the top 100 performing schools, let us do that, and if you want us to talk about the Dinaledi Schools Project, let us do that. Let us not confuse two issues that do not go together. Thank you.]