By Lameez Omarjee and Matthew le Cordeur, this was published on Fin24 Cape Town – Civil society moved a step closer on Thursday in its drawn out court action to have the nuclear deal set aside with the submission of its replying affidavit. “The next step is to set a court date,” said Safcei spokesperson, Liziwe […]
In 2014 SAFCEI became concerned by the indications given that South Africa’s energy future was being decided behind closed doors by foreign business interests. SAFCEI submitted several PAIA requests regarding this to the Department of Energy – which were refused on unsatisfactory grounds – and the Department of Finance, which said it had no knowledge […]
Press release 17th May 2016 According to the court rules, Friday 13th was the day government was supposed to respond to civil society’s application to the high court, but failed to deliver their answering affidavits by this date. “We have instructed our lawyers to apply to the court to force the government to respond,” stated […]
By Matthew le Cordeur This article was published in Fin24 Cape Town – A court case questioning the legality of the Department of Energy’s (DoE) 9.6GW nuclear procurement programme has caused the department to delay gazetting the request for proposals (RFPs), the Democratic Alliance (DA) said. The DoE said it plans to gazette the RFPs […]
By Marianne Thamm This article was published in Daily Maverick While the nation has been caught up in the meaning and implications of the Constitutional Court ruling that the President and National Assembly had violated the Constitution, alarming details have emerged in a Cape High Court challenge of Government’s secret nuclear deal with Russia which […]
By Carol Paton This article was published in BDLive NEW proof has emerged that SA intended to sign a binding deal with Russia to buy a fleet of nuclear reactors, bypassing public finance management rules along the way. This is contained in court papers lodged on Wednesday by the Southern African Faith Communities Environmental Initiative […]
By Jan-Jan Joubert This article was published in Times Live A leading environmentalist group and a faith based activist grouping are filing court papers alleging that Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson ignored state law advisors and acted unconstitutionally and illegally in not submitting the government’s nuclear deal with Russia to parliament as the Constitution requires. If […]
By Matthew le Cordeur This article was published in Fin24 Cape Town – Legal documents indicate that South Africa did sign a nuclear deal with Russia, environmentalists who have taken the government to court, alleged on Wednesday. In its legal proceedings against the Department of Energy (DoE), Earthlife Africa (ELA) and the Southern African Faith […]
Press release 6th April 2016 Earthlife Africa Jhburg and Southern Africa Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI), responded to the latest news on the nuclear deal, applauding the delay in nuclear procurement, as we understand, was announced by Minister Pettersson today. We understand that, due to missing a technical deadline for issuing a request for proposals […]
