Mr Chairman, through you to the hon Koornhof, I've never spoken a single kind word regarding Eskom, so I will not be in the same category as those who you think to be guilty. [Interjections.]
Who are we representing here? The hon Koornhof knows that three years ago we had common cause trying to get copies of those contracts. They didn't tell us that those contracts for the aluminium smelters were old contracts, nor that no new contracts would have been made or had been made recently. We are now faced with a situation where we are having a debate on these important issues in Parliament, not as a separate debate on our energy policy, but as an incident to the tabling of a report. That in itself is a problem. We, as Parliament, are not discussing the issue that is most fundamental to everything we care about - economic growth, unemployment, crime - and that is the energy problem! Fix the energy problem and you fix the problem. Fix energy and you fix unemployment.
HON MEMBERS: Hear, hear!