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Important lessons remain from landmark South African nuclear court case four years on
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On Monday 26 April, it will be four years since the Western Cape High Court found the government’s R1-trillion nuclear deal and associated energy procurement processes to be “illegal and unconstitutional”. South Africa was spared from a corrupt deal under the Zuma government that would have bankrupted the country. This day also marks 35-years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 (Fukushima followed almost exactly 25-years later, on 11 March 2011). Civil Society is marking the fourth anniversary of the court case win as an important historic moment in our fight against corruption and state capture, while warning that the government seems to be once again set on building unnecessary and unaffordable nuclear energy.