Hon Deputy Speaker and Mr Deputy President, when one receives a strategic partner, it means more than just a simple entering into a contract, it means a form of almost semiprivatisation. Now, quite rightly so the Minister of Finance, Mr Tito Mboweni, said that state-owned entities, SOEs, simply some of them are not required and some of them in fact need to be sold off. Now, President Ramaphosa has had two different opinions, especially regarding Eskom in this regard.
When you went to Davos into international communities asking for loans which you would then bring back to your strategic committee for discussion, there was one of two