Around five million disadvantaged children countrywide will no longer have to be worried about the payment of school fees.

We are failing the poor.

In every case those irregularities (reported by provincial education departments) have been effectively dealt with and the necessary actions have been taken.

We are asking people to walk their children to school, and to get children together and to assist them as best they can, ... We're asking for parent volunteers to look as they're walking if there are other kids walking separately, to bring them into the group and assist them that way.

The data is pretty extensive that pre-school training produces markedly increased earning ability when those children reach adulthood.

Take your children to school on the first day of school, so they will know you are serious about their education.