Chairperson, with this adjustment government is really and truly putting its money where its mouth is in the sense that education has been the priority. And improving literacy and numeracy is clearly a major priority in this regard.
Five hundred and twenty-four million rand will be going towards purchasing workbooks for primary school students. This will basically be dealing a death blow to two of the major challenges that we have as far as our education system is concerned.
The first is task on time: learning and teaching happening in the class. The second, of course, is addressing the major challenge regarding some deficiencies amongst our teachers in terms of teaching abilities, and so on. With this in mind, Minister, can you assure the House that workbooks will be on every primary school desk by the beginning of the year in 2010?