Mr Chairman, on a point of order: regarding the above motion, the intentions are good, but the methods were unacceptable.
Chairperson, I hereby move the following motion without notice:
That the Council - 1) notes that -
a) the South African economy is in the worst recession since the 1920s;
b) this economic recession has resulted in nearly a million people losing their jobs;
c) the majority of the people of South Africa are faced with severe financial challenges;
d) the South African government failed in its duty to ensure that the electricity needs for the country were adequately provided for and prevented Eskom from building new power generators, despite warnings since 1998 that such generation capacity would be required;
e) the South African government failed to deal with the maladministration within Eskom;
f) the electricity tariff was increased by a very high 27,5% in 2008 and 31,3% only 8 months ago;
g) the excessively high electricity tariff increases of 24,8% for 2010-11, 25,8% for 2011-12 and 25,9% for 2012-13 that were approved by Nersa on 24 February 2010 will severely aggravate the current extremely poor economic climate.
[Time expired.]
Hon member, your time has expired. Your motion will now become a notice of motion and will be printed in full in the next Order Paper. Hon Mokgoro, you may proceed. Oh, there is a point of order.
Chair, can I just get clarity from the Chair on the time limit for a motion without notice?
It is one and a half minutes.
Thank you.