House Chair, I have to take the Minister on with regard to what she has just said. She said that basic rights are progressively realisable. Now the court has ruled that the right to basic education, section 29 of the Constitution, is immediately realisable. It is not a progressively realisable right.
The content of that right, however, has not been defined and that is what you will be looking at. But the Minister is on very dangerous ground by saying that the right to basic education is a progressively realisable right; it is not.
I am quoting the Minister in a response to a question that I asked of her earlier this year on infrastructure norm and standards. The Minister said, and I quote:
The focus for the 2010-14 strategic plan period will be on all schools that do not meet the basic safety standards, and those constructed from inappropriate material and are a danger to learners and educators ...