Hon Deputy Speaker, I thank you once again for the opportunity for a rejoinder. I have listened carefully to the points that members of the opposition have made, but the fundamental question that we have to address, which, in my opinion, we have not adequately addressed, is how we pay for infrastructure in this country.
We have been very thin on how we do that. [Interjections.] The issues that you have raised - I have spoken about the fuel levy. The fuel levy can't be the responsibility of everyone who does not utilise the toll roads in Johannesburg. [Interjections.] As for the issue that we have to take responsibility, as the governing party, the very same people who criticise us today, if, we as a government, had to allow the roads of this country to deteriorate, would soon tell us that the roads under apartheid were in a better state.
We have the responsibility to maintain and develop infrastructure in this country, and we will continue to do so. [Interjections.] It's our responsibility as government to do so; it's our responsibility as government to take proper decisions that might be unpopular at certain times, but the responsibility that we have is to take proper decisions in the interests of this country for the next 50 years, for the next 100 years. That's what we seek to do, and that's what we will do. [Applause.]