It is quite
correct, hon Luzipho that the powerful nations use all of us as pawns in a chessboard. Our starting point and line of defence is to ensure that we look after the interest
and needs of our country. Everything else must follow. The biggest mistake we can do is to comply and relegate a national interest and needs to the back banner. When you do that we will diversify sources of energy to South Africa. We get oil from Nigeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Angola so that we don't get stuck at the slightest provocation by any nation. That is where we are and we will maintain that policy and hopeful that one day we will discover our own oil reserves as the exploration is happening.