Thank you hon Chair, Minister, currently 55% of youth between the age of 15 and 24 years old is unemployed. Amongst them are those who have Grade 12 certificates, TVET certificates, Further Education and Training, FET,
certificates and university graduates whom corporate South Africa is not employing currently. How are you going to make sure and ensure that these grade nine learners if they decide to leave the schooling system or go and pursue TVET qualifications, how are you going to make sure that they become employable and be able to compete with those students that I spoke about? Is your intention just to get them out of the system, get them out of your hair so that they do not have to be a problem anymore?