I think Eskom said there are challenges that they are dealing with, also that they wanted some increase, and that there has been a debate in the country. I thought they were saying this country will continue to have electricity, as I understood them. I might have understood them differently. They didn't say we are about to be plunged into a dark country. I think they were saying, given all the challenges, they are working hard to ensure that the country remains with this energy going forward.
What is important is the fact that we are working on these huge power stations precisely because we realised the challenges of economic growth in the country, which were not there before. You'll recall that before 1994, electricity was in abundance and very cheap in the country because it was serving a very small portion of the country. Now that we are developing the economy, we are taking electricity to areas that were never there before. So it is not because of anything else but the legacy of where we come from.
For the first time, every citizen in this country is supposed to have electricity and we are extending it to most remote areas. That is what has been a challenge. It has not been inefficiency; inefficiency was there before. It is again not because the inefficiency was just by sheer accident; it was because the economy, including electricity, was racially structured. Now this one is nonracial.
The amount is therefore not enough because it had never been paid attention to. We are paying attention to it, and that's why we are doing everything in our power to ensure that whilst we are trying to deal with the legacy of apartheid, South Africans will never run short of electricity. We are doing everything we can. I think that's what Eskom was saying today; that's how I understood them. I didn't understand them to be saying we are now running to darkness. No, I didn't understand them to be saying so. Thank you very much.