Through you Chairperson, hon Minister, in all honesty, we doubt your level of understanding of what is happening at Eskom as a public entity, and also the competing interest between Eskom as a public entity and the independent power producers, IPPs, representing private interest.
Now, hon Minister, over a month ago, we wrote you questions for written reply and answers, asking for the number of engineers at Eskom, the details of Enel's appointment as a technical advisor and Enel's links to IPPs. After a month, you replied to us stating that you do not have this information as to how many engineers exist within Eskom and you are waiting for Eskom to reply.
Do you really don't know this basic information which should take you less than a day to retrieve or you are misleading us, hon Minister? Thank you.