🔒 Andrew Feinstein on how Arms Deals finance political parties (ANC included)
One could probably dub Andrew Feinstein – the feisty former African National Congress MP – as Mr World-Fighter-Against-Arms-Deal-Corruption.
One could probably dub Andrew Feinstein – the feisty former African National Congress MP – as Mr World-Fighter-Against-Arms-Deal-Corruption.
In another break with his implicated predecessors, SA president Cyril Ramaphosa refused to oppose the court application by Corruption Watch and fellow NGO Right2Know.
After 19 years in service, Fuzile left the building yesterday. His departure was announced less than a week after the midnight cabinet reshuffle when finance minister Pravin Gordhan was fired.
Yesterday’s High Court judgement is probably not the end of the nuclear saga. It is, however, a huge blow for those trying to drive through the process.
Numbers crunched by the State’s own scientific research institute, the CSIR, show that technological advances have already made renewable energy a far cheaper option than nuclear.
The video unpacks the nuclear realities of what the Zuma Administration wants to visit upon South Africa. Watch it. Or be prepared to repent at leisure.
Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson will be asked in Parliament next week to account for missing documents in a court case regarding the nuclear energy programme.
Opponents of SA President Jacob Zuma’s nuclear energy obsession have a fresh ally. Late last week, new UK Prime Minister Theresa May called a stop to her country’s proposed £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear plant.
Terry Crawford-Browne is now petitioning SA’s Constitutional Court to set aside the findings and allow the country to sue the arms makers for the R70bn it cost taxpayers.
Tom Eaton thinks the trillion rand nuclear project will bury South Africa in a tsunami of filth so deep that we’ll forget what clean air smells like.