French nuclear decoy a distraction from Russian done deal
15 October 2014
Today, South Africans were informed of a nuclear cooperation agreement between South Africa and France, signed yesterday by Energy Minister, Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
This is no more than a decoy, intended to muddy the waters and divert the attention from the Russian deal negotiated by President Zuma and signed by Minister Joemat-Pettersson last month.
We're led to believe that a similar agreement with the Chinese is up next and that the proper procurement process has yet to begin, but all evidence points to a done deal with the Russians. No amount of obfuscation can allow our focus to shift from this.
The fact that President Zuma personally and privately negotiated with Russian President Vladimir Putin on at least three occasions - at the BRICS summit in Brazil last year, at the Black Sea resort of Sochi in May last year and again during his secretive visit to Moscow in August this year - before instructing Minister Joemat-Pettersson to sign the deal, exposes these subsequent "agreements" with other countries for the cover-up they are.