Ann: FY24 Production Guidance - Kwale Operations, page-43

Yep, and imagine that negotiating that deal was your livelihood and important to your sense of self worth, and was you trying to deliver on something that you asked many people to contribute to; that it was something you thought could bring many benefits to the people of Toliara in a similar way to how Kwale brought great benefits to people of that region. And imagine that you were confounded for 4 years in those efforts. And that when you went to Madagascar to talk to the government that you came back with gut bacteria that had you sh!tting water for weeks.

And imagine that, even though you were facing those elements on behalf of shareholders, those same shareholders some of whom got most of their shares for 5 cents were complaining about the lack of progress and how those same shares were only 16.5 cents and not seeming to mention that they'd received 17 cents in dividends in the meantime!

Imagine that?

I remember in late 2017, how I was sitting in my front yard making a treehouse for my kids in an effort to cope with the death of my father in a crash, and how I told someone from Base that lots of things can go wrong - and they remember it too. But neither of us imagined that one of those things was being stopped from working on the project for 3 1/2 years.