I would begin by offering my deepest condolences to the family, friends and teachers at Horskool Driehoek where three young boys and one young girl were killed earlier this month when a concrete slab linking two school buildings came crashing down on 26 pupils. One of the deceased students was a star athlete and had a bright future ahead of him. A young girl of 13 fractured her hip, her liver and her stomach wall was torn, leading to intense
internal bleeding and head injuries. A young pupil of 14 suffered a ruptured spine and spinal cord with head injuries. She survived but will be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. More than 10 pupils are still recovering in hospital from their various injuries. This is not the dream they deserved, but is the price our families and children must pay because the Gauteng Department of Education yearly fails to spend its infrastructure budget.
Taking over Johannesburg and Pretoria from the failing ANC, there were no maintenance plans in place with much of the infrastructure on the brink of collapse. It is this ANC that has allowed the cancer of corruption to kill the dream of Gauteng ... [Interjections.]