Speaker, first of all I would like to respond to the statement by hon Radebe on the energy stakeholders' meeting. He mentioned the Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone, IDZ, which was, of course, launched in October last year.
I just want to report to the House that since then the work we have been doing with the other stakeholders has led to an interest being expressed by eight investors, six of whom have signed statements of intent to invest in the IDZ.
We have also been promoting this oil and gas service facility with countries as far away as those in West Africa, which are now experiencing oil booms. We are also working towards the creation of a facility that can service oil and gas producers on the east coast.
I should also say that with shale gas, we might have anything between 35 and 483 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in this country. To put that into context, Mossgas was operated on the basis of 1 trillion cubic feet.
What we are doing as government, under the leadership of the Department of Mineral Resources led by Minister Shabangu, is preparing regulations that will provide for the responsible exploration of this resource, which has the potential to be a game changer by providing clean energy - and one which is a lot greener than that from other sources.
In response to hon Selfe, I just want to point out that when the ANC list comes out it won't be littered with confidential candidates or with the names of people who are going to be released later, who have never had any record in our organisation and have been serving as moles in other parts of government. Let me say, also in response to the statement made by one of our hon members about the role of the donor, in my input on the state of the nation address I posed a number of very serious questions about that, and I am still waiting to hear an answer from the DA about the role of this donor.
I also stressed the point that this donor was reportedly also involved in a company that produces security features for the war between Israel and Palestine, which the United Nations has declared to be unacceptable. Thank you. [Applause.]