South Africa needs oil, gas, nuclear, as well as renewables – Mantashe

Delivering the keynote address at the Enlit Africa conference in Cape Town on Wednesday, South African Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe reported that the current moratorium on the development of the country’s shale gas resources would be lifted. Any subsequent Court challenges would be met. The country would go ahead with the development of its oil and gas resources, despite Court challenges. South Africa needed oil and gas. He was also seeking to revive the State-owned oil company, Petrosa, which had been subjected to “asset-stripping”.
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Gordhan refutes claim that he prompted De Ruyter’s private Eskom investigation

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan tore strips off former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter during his appearance before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday, dismissing descriptions of De Ruyter as a whistle-blower and suggesting that naming politicians fingered in an unsubstantiated privately funded intelligence report would amount to a smear campaign. The meeting is the fourth to be convened following allegations of serious corruption and sabotage made by De Ruyter during an explosive television interview in February and subsequently also repeated in his book, which was released on May 14.
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