Hon Minister, thank you for your very comprehensive reply. I guess it's understandable that we don't have all the costs at the moment. It is a short-term, medium-term and long-term solution that is required to deal with acid mine drainage, AMD. Indeed, we will have to manage it for ever because one cannot come up with a solution to get rid of AMD permanently.
The question I want to put to you, though, is this: One of the most important environmental governance principles is "the polluter pays". That means that if you pollute in South Africa, you are held to account and you have to pay for the rehabilitation. With that in mind, how can it be justified that your department is using R225 million of taxpayers' money to get the ball rolling? In essence, this is a subsidisation of the polluter. Secondly, will your department commit to aggressively pursuing some kind of cost recovery from the polluters to ensure a sustainable solution to the funding of the AMD response over time?