Hon Minister Mphephethwa, we thank you for the response. To follow up on that, is it possible that assistance can be made available, especially to students from the rural areas, since the Minister mentioned the issue of submitting applications which is the same problem with regard to transport. Because a student from a rural area pays a lot of money for transport when he is expected to go and submit the application at a university. He or she encounters a challenge financially when he or she has to travel and when he or she arrives there he or she finds that the queue is already long.
Is there a way that we can assist these students from the rural areas? There are many rural areas. I, for one, come from Gingindlovu, and the students from these rural areas are in need of money to go to school even now. Minister, is there another plan in place for the coming year so that when it begins the students are prepared and they will be assisted? Thank you.