Hon Deputy Speaker, the question was Denel Aerostructures, but that notwithstanding, this is a new question about something different. You do not respond to any challenges of this nature through simplistic sleight-of-hand solutions, as is being suggested. [Interjections.] SAA and SA Express ensure the security of air travel to South Africa, a country that is on the southernmost tip of the African continent. During this period when most global airlines, including the privatised airlines, are in trouble, it is necessary that the South African government should support its national airlines to ensure that we are able to guarantee the movement of passengers for leisure and business to our country. We are not in the north, closer to the dominant global markets. We are on the southernmost tip of the African continent. If we fail to bring passengers to South Africa because the private airlines cannot do it, it is the South African economy that is going to suffer. Therefore, oversimplification of the problems and challenges faced by SAA and SA Express is not going to help. [Interjections.] I am confident that the government is paying the necessary attention to addressing the challenges faced by these two airlines. Having said that, hon Deputy Speaker, these were not the questions that I was asked under Question 151. [Applause.]
Steps to ensure that communications infrastructure remains a viable attraction for investors
163. Ms L L van der Merwe (IFP) asked the Minister of Communications:
Whether she has taken any steps to ensure that the communications infrastructure remains a viable attraction for investors to invest in after the Government declined South Korea's KT Corp from acquiring a 20% stake in Telkom; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what steps?