Deputy Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
(1) notes that the Minister of Basic Education, Minister Angie Motshekga has reported that solutions have been found for the problems in the Eastern Cape education department;
(2) further notes that after months of wrangling between the Minister of Basic Education and the provincial department over her intervention, the department has started cleaning up its act and has rehired 4 000 dismissed temporary teachers;
(3) also notes that the pupil transport system is being reinstated, the school feeding scheme was reintroduced and pupils are now benefiting from the programme; and
(4) takes this opportunity to congratulate the inter-ministerial task team on their success in bringing stability and order into the Eastern Cape department of education and urges the national department to put measures in place to ensure that we do not see a recurrence of these problems.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.