Deputy Speaker, this country is experiencing a disaster in education. Seeing the status of education in Limpopo is like watching a horror movie. It is totally unacceptable that the public is forced to get a court interdict to assure the delivery of textbooks, which is a basic constitutional right in our new democracy. Minister Motshekga owes this country an explanation. We demand a full report, not only on Limpopo, in fact, but the whole country. Other provinces are experiencing the same problems, but they are not being discussed.
Just yesterday, in the North West province, the Delareyville Primary School in my constituency was told during an inspection that books were being delivered to the regional office but to the wrong schools and that they did not know where these textbooks were. No English textbooks for Grade 2 learners and mathematics textbooks for the senior grades have been delivered to this day. Only a few of the books for the Grade 2 foundation learners have been received. Teacher guidelines have also not been received.
It is a disgrace - this school consists of 80% previously disadvantaged learners. Minister Chabane, the Minister in the Presidency: Performance Monitoring and Evaluation as well as Administration in the Presidency, must inform this House why his monitoring never picked up these problems. He must tell us why the Minister of Basic Education is left to her own devices, to evaluate herself, giving herself a B minus. We want to know from Minister Chabane whether he is going to submit a report card on the Minister; and if it is anything less than a fail, then he is clearly not doing his job. [Applause.]