I'm afraid your time is up, hon Mhlongo. Minister, can you please respond?
Well, when the hon Minister's party wins the next elections or the one after that; or the one after that; or the one after that, then hopefully they will have a better understanding of Eskom. All I can say is that we do understand the problems and we are beginning to address them. We have answered those questions in a number of different ways. But the task is a difficult and a challenging one, but one that we will certainly overcome.
As far as the IPPs are concerned, as my colleagues next to me have said a moment ago, that it is the area that Minister Radebe deals with. If we listened carefully to what Minister Mantashe said a moment ago, we will understand that our economy is a mixture of public and private sectors, and in fact, social as well. In that kind of mixture, where the private sector is 70% of the