According to the Africa Mobile Observatory report of Global Systems for Mobile Association, there were 59 474 500 cellphone devices in South Africa in 2013. About 8 million South Africans access the Internet on their cellphones, which must tell us that the demand for smartphones will be on the rise. There are a further 24 million TV sets in the country, and this includes TV sets in hotels, hospitals, and other institutions. These numbers are naturally on the rise. Unless your planning goes aggressively into the production of information and communication technologies, you have not even started doing real industrial planning.

The reduction of the cost of communication starts with relocating the production of these electronics from abroad. Here lies employment and an opportunity for the country to claim a certain form of independence. If we were to close our borders, communication would be stopped because cellphones, TV sets and all sorts of other things come from outside. Here lies employment, as I have said, and in two years we will not be able to communicate, as it were. We need to break economic ... [Interjections.]