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- speaker-1: It's just northwest of South Africa. We share minerals, diamonds. That kind of export from Namibia. And we've just come in to the one of the biggest oil reserves in the whole of the African continent. And that'll come on board in about 10 years. But right now, Shell, you know, Exxon, Total, they all in Namibia. So we have an opportunity to grow not only our population and our employment, which is very, very low in our part of the world. So Many opportunities have not been given to people in Africa. Many companies come in, they take the resources and the minerals, and they leave and they sell them overseas, and our government gets the benefit from it. So that's been my whole thrust my whole life. My passion is to make sure that the children are really given an opportunity through the government and through all our opportunities for in in International investment.