Hon Chairperson, with all due respect I don't know what committee the hon Van Lingen attends, or whether we attend the same committee. This is because she is misleading the House to say that the Department of Energy doesn't have an energy resource plan. The integrated energy resource plan has been passed. The department has come and briefed the committee on that.
The ANC government supports this Budget Vote. The ANC government has done a lot in a short space of time in energy. The past decade has witnessed dramatic change, which was brought about by the ANC government. In the energy sector, priorities in South Africa moved from the apartheid era of single-minded emphasis on energy security to a broader concern about access to affordable energy, economic efficiency and environmental sustainability.
The transformative character of energy to improve ordinary people's lives is fundamental. The DA doesn't want to improve ordinary people's lives. Just look at the City of Cape Town, where the DA is in control. They don't even want to give free basic services, which have been implemented by the ANC government, to the people of the Western Cape. [Interjections.] Specifically in the areas of Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Hanover Park or Mitchells Plain they cut off the electricity. They put it down. They don't even want to deliver.