House Chairperson, I thought I had indicated that as government and as the department, we were very privileged to benefit from Strategic Integrated Project, Sip 13. This means that the entire government, from the Presidency down, is behind us to ensure that we can implement this. So, Finance and everybody is on board. That's what gives us the confidence that we will be able to deliver on the commitments.
Also, earlier I explained the extraordinary measures that we have put in place with Treasury and Public Works to make sure that indeed we can fast- track the process. I think members will know that the pace of delivery - without making any excuses - is sometimes not only reliant on government.
It is also reliant on the people with whom we work, and that's why when we launch the School Improvement Plans, Sips, we are going to engage with our partners, especially the building industry, in order to make sure that even they can confidently begin to invest their resources in education. This is because they claim that they could not invest adequate resources in education infrastructure because it was highly unpredictable and therefore risky.
If you go to the Eastern Cape, one of the things that delayed us, for example, was the unavailability of materials. Contractors had to go for weeks without materials. Some materials had to be imported from Botswana, after we had actually wiped out the entire supply of those materials in the province.
So, now that we have made it public that we are investing in this area, we think entrepreneurs and investors will begin to invest more strongly in the education infrastructure that we need. We are confident that with the signal we have sent out there will be more investment in school infrastructure and therefore there will be more efficiency in that sector.