Deputy Speaker, thank you. Deputy Minister, it's quite amazing that you have just said that the last question should be addressed to the provincial department of education when the intervention in terms of section 101(b) means that the national Department of Education is actually controlling education in the Eastern Cape.
Two nongovernmental organisations have filed an application in the Eastern Cape High Court in Bisho, seeking an order to direct the national Cabinet and national department to clarify their obligations in terms of the President's order that the national department take over the running of the Eastern Cape's provincial department of education. Lawyers for the national Education department have filed notices of opposition to the court case. This is bizarre. There exists a continuing lack of clarity as to precisely what powers, responsibilities and administrative functions have been taken over by the national government pursuant to the intervention, severely undermining education in the province.
Deputy Minister, why does your Ministry not wish to clarify obligations in respect of the constitutional rights of Eastern Cape children to quality education? Why does your Ministry not want to state publicly exactly what the department is and will be doing in the Eastern Cape? Thank you. [Applause.]