Deputy Chairperson, I have always thought that energy is a lively component, but this seems to be quite a boring debate today and I do not know if we must maybe get to a certain level and engage on some of the very relevant topics. [Interjections.]
I would like to thank the Minister and the department for the contribution that they are making in terms of striving to make sustainable energy a reality in our lifetime.
On 15 August 1985, there was a lot of expectation of an event that was supposed to happen. Many of us at that stage - or many of you - were not aware of that activity. That activity had to do with the Rubicon speech of the then President P W Botha in Durban. [Interjections.]
President Botha was supposed to announce the normalisation of politics in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela. However, the reality is that he got cold feet and never crossed the Rubicon. [Laughter.] It only happened in 1994, when somebody else, F W de Klerk, came and took over in order to normalise the political climate and situation in South Africa.