Jacob Zuma is most likely going to be extended amnesty and his corruption trial halted.

I’m looking forward very much to his presidency. I think he’s going to get South Africa back on track. I don’t think you realise just how badly SA has been managed under Mbeki.

Say what you will, but I am so glad I am out of the ANC toilet that SA has become.

What a bloody mess!

There are some things that I do investigate first hand, but Nuclear physics is not one of them.

Also see the nuclear-power debate on their SA website:
http://www.environment.co.za/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1066

Their warning was issued on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster that resulted in the deaths of up to 60,000 people and the permanent pollution of the entire environment in a whopping 120-km radius in this Ukrainian region. Please note that most of greater Cape Town’s residents live within a 30-km radius of Koeberg…

Members of this group and former Pelindaba employees — one worker, Simon Malatji, 36, said he was dying of cancer due to his exposure to radiation on the job — all gathered at Church Square under Oom Paul’s statue in Pretoria to mourn he disaster — and also to speak up about the risks of nuclear power.
http://www.environment.co.za/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=22

‘If an accident… happened at Koeberg you can say goodbye to Cape Town’

The gathering was constantly being disrupted by Pretoria Metro police which supposedly were worried about the Paul Kruger statue and its historic bronze group of statues made by world-famous sculptor Anton van Wouw. In spite of constant destruction to this statue, the Pretoria cops only worried when an anti-nuclear group was protesting at its base…

Dr David Fig of the Nuclear Energy Costs The Earth Campaign (Nectec) has studied the nuclear industry for the last 20 years and warned that ‘if an accident of the same scale as Chernobyl happened at Koeberg you can say goodbye to all of greater Cape Town and the wine, fishing, tourism and fruit industry in the entire area.

He even wrote a book about it, “Uranium Road’: email him at biowatch@mweb.co.za

http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=411181

“We are not prepared for a disaster like that. The lesson we should learn from Chernobyl is that nuclear technology is problematic and risky and when there are accidents they are difficult to rectify, this top expert already warned a full two years ago…

“It is a secret industry; there is no transparency which we feel is required to make a successful energy industry,’ he said…

Fig said at that time that nearly R16-billion would be needed to build a demonstration pebble bed-modular reactor and that would not even include the running costs.

To operate the reactor, uranium mined in South Africa would also have to be enriched overseas then transported from Durban to Gauteng for processing before finally being transported to the reactor site near Koeberg. Hence his book, Uranium Road.

Fig said transporting enriched uranium on South Africa’s highly dangerous roads – where dreadful, deadly accidents occur each day due to poor driving-habits by millions of uneducated, highly disruptive road-users — would moreover, put many thousands of people at risk of exposure to radiation.

Pelindaba employee is dying of cancer:

Former Pelindaba employee Simon Malatji said he was exposed to radiation and dangerous chemicals during his years at the centre. “I have seen people die after exposure to radiation.”

Malatji said his life had been ruined. “I worked for peanuts for that company and now I all I have to show are the scars.”

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=vn20060426010920746C119526

@Richard, that is terrible R100 for a half of a stump of a candle… lol that would get you around 20 minutes of light?
Stuart

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When I got to the store, they were sold out. A greazy little fellow outside the shop offered me half a stump of a candle for R100. I laughed in his face. Maybe I should run back and see if I can still find him.

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