Deputy Speaker, hon Deputy President, if one were to be simple and specific, what lessons would one take in regard to Medupi and Kusile, considering what happened at Eskom? Furthermore, noting the fact that the two entities also have already spent almost R200 billion, what lessons should we learn and what lessons should we take to the two entities? Thank you very much.
Deputy Speaker, I think what we have learnt from these two build programmes is that they were under the control of Eskom. That means Eskom was supervising everything that was done on site. We can ask the question: Does Eskom have the capacity and the know- how? Are the designs of the two power stations correct?
Purely, now, if you look at Eskom and the failures that have occurred over time, you can tell from a distance that there was a brain drain from Eskom. Therefore, it was impossible for Eskom, itself, to handle such a mega build programme and the design, itself. Surely, as a country, Eskom should have opted to contract a company, on a specified design, to build the power stations? In