Chairperson, firstly, the MF would like to commend the Minister of Higher Education and Training for looking at transformation in the tertiary section and also for seriously ensuring ways and means of assisting poor students to complete their tertiary education and studies. We believe that the Minister must implement his ideas and the MF will give him our fullest support.
It is very important for the state to ensure that a learner who has the intellect and capacity to advance and excel in tertiary studies must not be deprived in our country on the grounds of poverty. I know that the Minister comes from the SACP but the MF believes that communism is outdated and it is now called modern socialism and we support the Minister in his modern social approach.
To the Minister of Basic Education the constitutional imperative in the fight for democracy is, in a word, to provide for the poor. If we look at the ex-HoR and HoD schools, these schools are now populated largely - in fact most of these schools are ... The MF will support the budget. [Time expired.]