Thank you very much, hon member. There is a difference between what Magnus Malan meant as unpatriotic and what a democratic state would mean as unpatriotic.
Yes, there is a counter-piracy conference taking place. It starts on Thursday. If the hon member has time, it would be very good if he went to it because we will be giving a very good presentation on the work that we are doing.
We have taken time, hon member, to study the issue of piracy. We indicated that at some point it seemed a very distant problem - a very distant threat - to us, until we started counting the cost of what it would mean to us and our economy and the economies of the countries around us. We have now put in place a SADC strategy to deal with piracy. We presented it to the SADC heads of state in Angola a few months ago, and it was adopted. It is now binding on all the countries of the SADC region to ensure that this strategy is funded and that it is supported.
We offered to host the first centre for this strategy, and we are very glad that we are having the conference here. We have budgeted for the fleet that we would need to support the strategy, because it is very important for us. We have also had to reprioritise this, because it was not on our agenda, but we are fully covered for the current year. Thank you.