Deputy Speaker and Minister, we know that it is estimated that a woman is raped in South Africa every four minutes. We also know that as at the end of 2012, at least 92 of the 243 teacher-learner sexual abuse cases reported since 2010, which is 38% of the reported cases, had not been investigated. They were pending, and 41 cases had been pending for more than a year. These figures suggest, Minister, unfortunately that you have not been taking the scourge of sexual abuse and violence and the welfare of our children seriously.
Why has your oversight role with respect to the SA Council for Educators, SACE, not been exercised? Why have you allowed so many cases of alleged sexual abuse of our learners to go uninvestigated by SACE? What will the Minister now do to ensure that those responsible for this lack of investigation of alleged sexual abuse are held accountable?