The grid will never be in private hands, because if it were privatised you would be creating another challenge that we are already dealing with in that we have to create the ISMO, the independent systems and market operator.
With regard to the hon members who raised the issue of biofuels, I'm happy that you indicated the challenge of using food crops to produce fuel. This is because we would then be driving up the cost of maize meal, the staple food of South Africans. That is why, together with the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Science and Technology, we are looking at what would be the right crop to utilise to produce biofuel.