Hon President, your government is asking the people of South Africa to pay for the last number of years. You have increased the cost of energy today by 9.4%, thanks to your own mismanagement by your government. The second thing is; you are coming here to tell us that you want to unbundle. We know as much as you do that SACP and Cosatu have already said that is not going to happen. Next year you are going to ask our people to keep paying more for this one entity called Eskom and you know as much as I do that nothing is going to happen unless SACP agrees.
My real problem is that you have made a decision to appoint Deputy President Mabuza to head up this new process of unbundling. What is tragic is that here, last week he came and told the people of South Africa that the reasons for Eskom's failure are because of growth, that load shedding is an outcome of growth, which is outrageous. What I would like know Mr President is whether you stand by Mr Mabuza's statement that load shedding is a function of growth. I mean, seriously, come on. [Applause]