Deputy Speaker, Deputy President, I've listened to the root causes and I cannot disagree with you. However, I put it to you that the reasons you have advanced for this crisis that we face do not acknowledge the true root cause of the problem - which lies with bad, negligent, corrupted governance of Eskom and the state by no one else but your political party.
The financial challenges you are talking about can be addressed, in part, by looking at the top-heavy salaries, and by actually bringing in maximum salary scales. Let's look at the municipalities. The problems we have in our municipalities could also have been dealt with if what was supposed to be for service delivery was not paid in millions of rand in salaries, as well.