Chairperson, hon members, Minister, I know that the department has seriously noted the potential of school sport, in particular, to unite the nation's narrow racial divide and make the nation be at peace. Let me join the lamentations of other members who have spoken here that school sport, in the main, is highly neglected. I appreciate the fact that the Minister has noted that there is slow progress in school sport, particularly in the North West and other provinces.
I would be interested in receiving the report that the department has been compiling over the past five years on the mass-based school sport activities to gauge what is going on, which qualifies to be called "mass- based".
The department's policy on school sport is deficient, unimaginative and inadequate. As it is a core function of the department to produce these reports on mass-based school sport, therefore, I will wait anxiously to be shown what is contained in those reports so that we are able to see that farm and rural schools in particular are also participating in this activity.
In conclusion, we need to strengthen the policy on school sport, particularly in rural and farm areas, to make sure that these programmes are properly monitored. As we do oversight, all of us must make sure that the learners are participating actively in school sport. Attention should also be paid to the training of teachers as coaches. I have noted what the Minister said about the two days that have been set aside for this particular exercise. Thank you. [Applause.]