Chair, the hon Smiles is just hiding his attack on Sadtu by using the collaboration issue and quoting my words on "courageous leadership."
I can report with confidence what courageous things we've done around the collaboration; I thought that was the issue at hand. As I've said, what we've done in the past three months is that we've profiled provinces; we've called community meetings in implementing the trust. On the matter of competency tests, if you're interested to know where we are, I'll tell you where we are with the negotiations, but that is not related to the issue at hand. As I said, you're now hiding your attack on Sadtu by using the collaboration process.
If you want to ask questions about what is happening with Sadtu, ask, and we will talk about that. You asked a question about the collaboration and my answer to that is: Indeed we've been very courageous; we are working and I can report on progress. We've profiled more than eight districts; we've set up structures; visited communities, and we are responding to what we've gathered. So ``courageous'' does not only include competency tests, but it also includes doing the work that we have committed to doing, which is what we are doing. Thank you.
Particulars regarding provision of libraries and laboratories to all schools
245. Mr Z S Makhubele (ANC) asked the Minister of Basic Education:
With reference to providing all schools with libraries and laboratories, (a) what is the current backlog, (b) how does she intend to overcome this challenge, (c) when will it be addressed and (d) do institutions of higher learning produce librarians for each school? NO2725E