Hon Minister, your department yesterday placed an entirely disingenuous advertisement in the Daily Dispatch. It proudly proclaims that the Department of Basic Education is winning the war of eradicating mud schools.
Now, we know that due to massive underspending on the mud schools project and the "unsafe schools project" - let us put it that way - Minister Gordhan was forced to reallocate R7,2 billion that had been allocated for the Infrastructure Backlog Project.
We know that 346 mud and other unsafe schools that should have been replaced in the outer year of the 2013-14 financial year, will now not be replaced. Your advertisement conveniently omits this important fact. Hon Minister, please use this opportunity to clarify exactly from where you will source the funding to replace the 346 schools you have promised to replace by 2014, and by when they will be replaced.
HON MEMBERS: Hear, hear!