Hon Deputy Speaker, I welcome the response by the Deputy Minister. Obviously the major challenge is that education for the black child in South Africa continues to be a difficult thing for them to achieve under the circumstances which we have seen. There are, of course, financial implications in terms of which students have to now fork out in order for them to be fully part and parcel of the catch-up programme, and the majority of them receive financial assistance.
Are there interventions that the department would be instituting to ensure that students are able to fully participate in the catch-up programme in order for them to make up for the lost time so that, whatever happens, they are not compromised or prejudiced by the circumstances in which they find themselves because of politicised unions? Thank you.