CANE - Coalition Against Nuclear Energy South Africa

Dear Ed,

Andrew Kenny deserves a prize for the most contrived and specious piece of nuclear greenwashing (Cape Times 25/09/2007) yet published in the daily press. To say there has only been one nuclear accident “in which five or more people died”, and by implication that there was only one accident at Chernobyl, is to discount the hundreds of thousands of victims of the disaster.

In 2006 a Greenpeace report revealed that the full consequences of Chernobyl could top a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers. The report involved 52 respected scientists and challenged the…

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NUKES FOR AFRICA?

If nuclear power is okay for South Africa, what about Zimbabwe? Or how about Rwanda, or Sierra Leone? If we are concerned about South Africa’s ability to provide safe transport for nuclear fuel and waste, risks of sabotage and smuggling of nuclear materials - what about nations in Africa that have been torn by civil war? What about a neighbouring nation like Zimbabwe where inflation is now at 7000%? South Africans may not be aware that despite poverty and starvation, Zimbabwe is somehow still considering the hugely expensive option of nuclear power. How comfortable do South Africans…

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21 September 2007
Press Release: DME’s Energy Summit puts Our Heritage at risk

In 1994, South Africa held its first democratic elections. Part of that democratic heritage was that a new way of governing was brought into being. People were to be involved in decision-making, and government would facilitate this. Legislation which supports access to information, administrative justice and environmental justice was enacted and many sector specific policy processes were undertaken. One of these was the policy process on energy which culminated in the White Paper on Energy of 1998.

A day after South Africa celebrates Heritage Day next week,…

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THE NUCLEAR CREDIT CARD

The nuclear industry has been marketing its product along similar appealing lines. Nuclear energy just won’t run out according to its marketers - some ministers in South Africa have even called it “sustainable”.…

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Hon Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela Foundation
Private Bag X70000
Houghton
2041
South Africa

Tel: 021 930 3622 Fax: 021 930 0995

Dear Sir,
RE: Nelson Mandela Foundation Anti-Nuke Legacy

The year 2013 will see the twentieth anniversary of the historic 1993 announcement of the dismantling of South Africa’s atomic weapons programme. As an anti-nuclear activist and world peacebuilder whose association with Earthlife Africa and other environmental groups has lasted nearly twenty years, I would like to urge you and your foundation to add your name to the International Campaign to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW).

South African uranium products, such as depleted uranium…

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