Are there plans to set-up solar farms in other sub-Saharan African countries?
From the power generation side of the business, we already have a subsidiary set-up in Namibia. We are also working on projects in Botswana and Mozambique. We also had some enquiries for a project in Kenya. None of these projects have been built yet. But hopefully by end 2011/early 2012 we will have our first project completed. What do you think of the South African government’s proposed REFIT programme? If you take the pressures on our government in terms of using the limited resources they have to appease the needs of so many people, I think it is quite admirable what they’ve proposed to do. The fact that they actually managed to find money to kick-start a renewable energy industry in South Africa, for me, is quite impressive. There are not many emerging market countries that have managed to do so to date. Clearly the challenge is that we don’t have a limitless supply of funding, so that is going to put a cap on the various renewable technologies. From that perspective it remains to
