Whilst commending the retraining of the former Electronic Data Interchange, EDI, workers as well as the contribution of the Chinese government to this, they must explore the relocation of former EDI employees to other entities under the department. Chairperson, the energy sector places a challenge to South Africa to play its international role in the most creative and qualitative manner. Energy is one of the centrifugal forces in global geopolitics, as we are currently witnessing in Libya.