House Chairperson, greetings to everyone in the House.
The report of the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry is on its visit to the federal republic of Germany. Why did we go there? Because as all of us are aware and that was one issue that all political parties were united around. It is important for us to get a better understanding of the Fourth Industrial Revolution because we have heard positives, we have heard negatives. We have heard that indeed this could result in a great loss of employment. Then we heard that it can lead to great competitiveness. What exactly is this about?
So we went along there. That is why we went and we began to realise that... Do you remember when an industrial revolution - I think it was the first one - was about water and steam to mechanise production? There were great