Power boss' nuclear friends

Guess who's woken up to the glory of nuclear energy? It wouldn't be fair to be that mean to Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.

- Richard Chemaly

He's toyed with the idea, as have many ministers before, but now it seems to be serious. He's even bemoaned the abandonment of our pebble bed modular reactor research.

Good news for him: it seems his buddies' buddies in China picked up the research, coincidentally, after we let it go and, coincidentally, after there was this break in the Pelindaba research facility where there was, coincidentally, a laptop with information apparently just chilling on a desk. I'm no conspiracy theorist and I don't want to believe leaked cables so I won't. I'm just saying that if China really were our friends, they'd share some info with us without us having to send the special task force in.

And our Russian buddies, à la Jacob Zuma who were graciously going to build us a nuclear reactor for a trillion bucks? One wonders how much fat off that they'd trim if Ramokgopa gave them a call.