Anti-nuclear activists in the Eastern Cape handed over a memorandum to the Department of Energy in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday, once again voicing opposition to a proposal to site a nuclear power plant at Thyspunt, west of St Francis Bay.
This was part of a nation-wide protest by Greenpeace and other organisations against the government's nuclear build programme with Russia that will reportedly cost the country around a trillion rand.
Greenpeace activists chained a so-called Trojan horse to the gates of the Department of Energy's offices in Pretoria, as a reminder to the Minister and the Department of, what they say, is the trap that they are leading the country into with the proposed nuclear deal.
Meanwhile, representatives from the Thyspunt Alliance, No Nukes PE and Mlibo Environmental Organisation handed over a memorandum to the Regional Director of the Department of Energy in Port Elizabeth.
Greenpeace spokesperson, Tsepo Peele says they also handed over a petition from more than a thousand community members demanding transparency around the decision to invest in new nuclear reactors.
"The concern is about the nuclear deal. As we all know or heard the Minister of Energy saying so many times that it is going ahead. The people on the ground do not have enough information. South Africa is not in a position to actually invest in nuclear at this point in time. The concern is that there is no information and people are not told of anything" he said.
Picture: Greenpeace Twitter account
