Education, Science and Technology, hon Buti Manamela who will be joining us a bit later as there is some voting in the National Assembly on the very same budget, the Director-General of the Department, Mr Gwebinkundla Qonde and senior management of the department, chairpersons and chief executive officers, CEOs, of our entities, heads of our Post-School Organisations and Institutions of Higher Education and Training who are present, student leaders, all the invited guests in the gallery, ladies and gentlemen and comrades, our Department of Higher Education and Training was established in 2009, with its primary goal being to provide education and training opportunities to all South Africans who are out of school, whether they attended school or not and whether they have passed or failed so that they are given opportunities to acquire further education and skills.