Madam Speaker, firstly, let me thank the hon Meruti for drawing attention to this very important programme of the pebble bed modular reactor. Those of us in Cape Town are fortunate that there is an excellent exhibit, which I urge all members to visit, at the MTN Science Centre at Century City, which deals not only with pebble bed technology, but with all nuclear energy. It also deals with the issues that hon Schmidt raised, namely the different forms of potential energy. It covers wind, its strength, its weaknesses, what it can do, its likely costs. It deals with biomass and it also deals with solar energy.
All of these forms of energy generation have potential, but it would be misleading to indicate that biomass, solar and wind would solve our problems in 45 years. If you go and see the study, you will see why that is evidently not possible. We have to develop larger base-load stations from other forms. They could be gas-fired, coal-fired or nuclear-fired. That is one of the realities we have to face.
Let me also, very briefly, say to the hon ...
[Interjections.] Madam Speaker, on a point of order: Is it parliamentary for a member of the opposition, when he has lost an argument, to move from his side of the House and come to engage me on my side of the House?
Well, hon Minister, we have a vibrant democracy, as you can see.
Hon Speaker, I hope you will listen just now because I also want to comment on this new ANC member.
Let me also just support what the hon Chohan said. However, I think there are some extremely important initiatives taking place in Jipsa, the Joint Initiative on Priority Skills Acquisition, - at Transnet, Eskom, AngloGold, Sasol and a number of other major companies that are combined in a partnership to deal with the whole skills development process.
In the Modupi area, the new station, we are in partnership with Murray & Roberts and others, as well as the local FET, further education and training institution, to make sure that the skills-trained are available. I think these are very exciting opportunities for young South Africans of all races.
Briefly too, regarding the Infraco, that hon Wang raised. That is correct; it is making a very important contribution to the accessibility and speed of broadband and, as we have announced in this House, we are in continued negotiations to improve our undersea cable access to Europe.
Finally, the hon Trent stands up and, as he always does, says that government is obstructing these investigations. He doesn't read a single thing government says; he doesn't read any report on anything. It is just not true what he said.
As we outlined in the presentation then, we have not obstructed any investigations from any overseas country. The German prosecutors, as have the British prosecutors, announced that there is no basis for further investigation of all the claims that he is making. So, one day the old man will get used to doing something other than talking absolute nonsense in this House. Thank you.