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The whole underlying unspoken trajectory of his speech is “blame the parents.”
But it’s poverty, Minister. In poverty you will find your root cause and in poverty your government is the cause. You simply cannot inflict eight years of the most severe cuts on the heads of the poorest in society without then seeing the culminating effect of those cuts on the weakest — children.
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