Deputy Speaker,
thank very much for the opportunity and let me also thank the member of the ANC for having raised the matter relating to Vedanta Zinc Mine. Last week on the 28th of last month the the President went to lauch the Vedanta Zinc International's Gamsberg Mine near Aggeneys in the Northern Cape. This represents the biggest opportunity for us as a country to establish a beneficiation and industrialisation hub in the Northern Cape for that matter because there is a single biggest known deposit of zinc in the world today. As the zinc mines all over the world are going down this one is ramping up.
Now, it is a classical thing where we can establish a zinc corridor between the Republic of South Africa and Namibia because that is where the belt is going including an opportunity for an Special Economic Zones, SEZ. With the beneficiation infrastructure that will be needed for that you will obviously need an additional power for a power station, a smelter, a fertilizer plant because as you smell the zinc, the bio product becomes althiric acid which is good for fertilisation. In the area as well, you