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Account name: SAFCEI Account Number: 076659410 Important lessons remain from landmark South African nuclear court case four years on MEDIA RELEASE On Monday 26 April, it will be four years since the Western Cape High Court found the government’s R1-trillion nuclear deal and associated energy procurement processes to be “illegal and unconstitutional”. South Africa was spared from a corrupt deal under the Zuma government that would have bankrupted the country. This day also marks 35-years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 (Fukushima followed almost exactly 25-years later, on 11...

OPEN LETTER: AFRICAN FAITH COMMUNITIES CALL ON GATES FOUNDATION, “STOP PUSHING INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE!”  SOUTH AFRICA: The Southern African Faith Communities’ Institute (SAFCEI) and faith community representatives from Africa recently made public its open letter to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They are appealing to the Gates Foundation to reconsider its approach to “food security and food production” and to stop their push for “input-intensive crop” monoculture agriculture and industrial-scale farming in Africa. According to SAFCEI’s Gabriel Manyangadze, “Widespr...

Last week, SAFCEI attended the virtual National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) public hearings on the Concurrence with the ministerial determination for the procurement of 2 500MW new generation capacity from nuclear. On the first day of the hearings, SAFCEI presented with Professor Steve Thomas (University of Greenwich), saying that we do not recommend that NERSA concur with the Ministerial determination on the procurement of  2500MW new nuclear. (Click here to download SAFCEI’s oral submission)     On the second day of the hearings, we were represented by a group of faith lea...