Mr Speaker, the DA supports the Deputy President's explanation of the logic behind the loan. It is important that our country joins international efforts to prevent future financial crises because those crises can have a devastating knock-on effect on us. Does the Deputy President agree that if this government had conceded to Cosatu's demand that the decision must be reversed on the grounds that "it had never been passed as ANC policy and represented South Africa's misinformed neoliberal economic policies since 1994", we would have abdicated our responsibility to global financial stability? Given that Cosatu is regarded by investors as an important partner of the governing party, how does he intend managing the risk imposed by their misguided pronouncements on international finance?