President Cyril Ramaphosa is being evasive about his role in the nuclear build programme in SA
30 October 2018
President Cyril Ramaphosa has, for the first time, confirmed that he was present at the Cabinet meeting on 09 December 2015, which took the decision to issue the request for proposals for the nuclear build programme in South Africa.
However, we still do not know whether President Cyril Ramaphosa had the courage to oppose the nuclear build programme, which at the time was described as “fiscally unsustainable”, in South Africa.
This is because President Cyril Ramaphosa claims that he cannot reveal whether he supported the decision by Cabinet on 09 December 2015 to issue the request for proposals for the nuclear build programme because:
“Discussion in Cabinet are confidential and it is therefore not possible to provide information on individual contributions to the discussion”.