The DA Public Enterprises spokesperson, Natasha Mazzone, said on Friday that a nuclear build would be an"impossibility" given the current state of the economy.
"Our country is in a much worse economic position that we were a few years ago, we simply cannot afford nuclear. Instead, we need to diversify our energy mix by bringing renewable energy to the grid," said Mazzone.'If we went for nuclear' “We are going to pay trillions of rand because of the problems of energy….but if we went for nuclear, we will be out of spending trillions for a shorter amount of time and we’ll make more trillions,” he told the newspaper.
South Africans has been experiencing rolling blackouts for the past week as Eskom grapples with a shortage of available capacity. According to Eskom, the shortages have been caused by a lack of diesel supplies, scheduled and unscheduled outages at generation units, and the devastating effect of a cyclone that hit Mozambique on transmission lines. "Now we are in deep [trouble], we are therefore increasing the debt of the country with no hope to bring it down. That is the problem,” said Zuma.
“Russia carried the biggest load in supporting us. So we cannot, when we are now free, forget about people who were our friends at the time of need,” Zuma told Business Day. While nuclear still forms part of SA's energy mix, there are currently no plans to move forward with procuring new nuclear-powered reactors.that South Africa could not afford new nuclear reactors.
Fin24 President of the ppl by the ppl. He was the one a kind. Most intelligent president we ever head. Look at the present moron dont know what is doing. Looking like a headless chicken
Fin24 Then they were not suppose to waist money on kusile and medupi power station n build nuclear station
Fin24 so could have some simple maintenance!
Fin24 Haha brilliant
kabelodick Fin24 And millions into his pockets.👎
Fin24 This Frog
Fin24 Hes bosses created the problem. gupta
Fin24 Obvious so you(zuma) could Steal more doos
Fin24 I m just thinking what could be happening if he was in power,state capture would continue to date
Fin24 Who cares what that old fart says!!!!
Fin24 No it would have filled his pockets and that of his cadre and left us the taxpayer suffering to make ends meet. Well we already there
Fin24 Zuma se .... !
Fin24 Yes, because so much you said and did were for the betterment of society as a whole. Eat Fuck Zuma ANC
Fin24 THULA!!!
Fin24 He already stole all the money for the deal anyway.
Fin24 Not on his watch.
Fin24 To PresJGZuma Guptas cud do anything MbalulaFikile exposed them as useless snake oil peddlers CyrilRamaphosa GuptaPresident Zwelinzima1 GwedeMantashe1 Ubaba not embarrassed as long as his plate of curry was served warm
Fin24 tell me how the heck can you publish such a bullshit story. Have you run out of stories? Rather then do not publish anything at all
Fin24 🤣
Fin24 No what could have solved loadshedding was 20 years ago when you were warned you should have listened.
Fin24 Aganyi perhaps!
Fin24 And we should listen to PresJGZuma who lead us into NineWastedYears? Stick with dancing and smoking cigars, let others clean up the mess you made of South Africa. One thing is for sure...if you think something is a good idea then we’ll stay away from it!
Fin24 Yeah right. The power stations would have been completed already. If Treasury had not stopped the nuclear all that would have happened was that the bribes would have been paid.
Fin24 Was it going to be up and running already ? ? ? ? ? ?
Mtamerri Fin24 For a moment I thought the crook was wiping his face with R100 notes
Nathi_MfokaJobe Fin24 It’s a fact
Fin24 Yes and much, mucchh, extremely larger pension!
Fin24 And lined his pockets
Fin24 That would be true by then. But here is situation is this not part wasted nine years. As you were president you couldn't convince this country about upcoming situation. And we should believe that. Why SA didn't believe you?
Fin24 The one deal that would have probably set u up for life that got away. It sucks we know but hey u cant have it all lol
Fin24 Oh king of corruptness, please keep your mouth closed. You have nothing of value to say.
Fin24 Nuclear would have been built with money we don't have over the next 20 years, how the fuck does that help us now FFS. This is bad journalism just to print it. How about 'unicorns could help SA if we asked them too'?
Mtamerri Fin24 Zuma isn’t well upstairs. How did he even become a whole President?
Fin24 yes in 10 years time i think🙄🙄
Fin24 Let him prove that theory
Fin24 Imagine why do we still give him air time
Fin24 It's like telling someone who does not have money and drives an old car.... And when it breaks down...... You could have bought a Ferrari and you would not be sick now......
Fin24 FFS someone tell this old man what is going on. JZ go count your stolen cattle and sit under a tree
Fin24 To get it done, is that why Madupe and the rest of the grid are destroyed. How little do you value the people of this land. Our current system & a100% Madupe is enough. Introduce alternative energy. ANC leadership wants to capture our taxes, has no good intentions or care
Fin24 They knew what they were doing at eskom,that's why
Fin24 Yes i think that's what we all learnt in grade 5
Fin24 Lol Nuclear was gonna solve load shedding ? Nuclear comes with a price tag of minimum R1 Trillion Our friends at ESKOM have well over 45 000 MegaWatts installed and SAs peak demand is around 30 000 We still have 15 000 to spare if ESKOM generation was 100% Do we need nuclear = NO
Fin24 Nuclear... Bombs... In many appropriate places, yes
Fin24 In other words spending R1trillion on top of the R450trillion debt would solve load shedding
Fin24 He still cries for tht big one that got away. Is Putin demanding his kickback 🙄
Fin24 What does he know in any way. Sold this coutry to the Guptas. And who cares what he says.
Fin24 Not stealing the money would have prevented loadshedding! Mxm
Fin24 Aphi amanga ka Nxamalala
Fin24 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Fin24 Oh yes! He is the one we must believe and put our faith in! Load shedding started in his reign my goodness!
Fin24 Or not stealing money, or not building sub standard power stations, or not letting the Ghuptas supply sub standard coal. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and so is honesty.
Fin24 tsek macipa! 🤨😏
Fin24 Mxm
Fin24 Heli ligevhenga li a fhafhada we
Fin24 🙄
Fin24 And SA says you must get lost, electricity with no work won't help the cause. You stole too much baba!
Fin24 Why do you keep asking him things?
Fin24 REALLY? Do you think that Nuclear Power Stations Just leap out of the ground at your command? You can’t even build a Coal Powered station! 8 YEARS LATE & COUNTING! Moron!
Fin24 🖕🏿
Fin24 Cant he just shut up. We are here cause of him...
Fin24 Whatever JacobZumaSaysIsStupid Look how stupid he was when he was president Laughed at us a lot Called SA A FUNNY DEMOCRACY Showed SA his middle finger OverspentAtNkandla and pretended he didnt know RingfencedLawEnforcements FiredGoodPeople FKCDUpEskom Got5Wives2GetPaidMore
Fin24 All developed countries use nuclear,coal outdated and environmental unfriendly
Fin24 Stupid speaks...
Fin24 Solved loadshedding and created a threat to life
Fin24 So said the man who had no idea what was going on in his own house,
Fin24 Judging by the current state of affairs it is possible that we will continue load shedding for many more yrs to come & losing trillions in the process & shutting down many businesses. In business, there short, medium & long term strategies... we may live to regret this one.
Fin24 We were developing our own pebble bed reactors, JZ put a stop to it and scrapped the program. We could have had cheap plants all over the country.
Fin24 Is he stupid or what? Is he listening on what his President is saying on matters related to NUCLEAR ENERGY..... ANGADAKWA LA, LO
Fin24 Who was Zuma again? Oh yes ....I remember now ...he was that raping, stealing, tribalist, racist, cant count, one man human wrecking ball sob that 60% of this country voted into power
Fin24 Whose fooling who
Fin24 Pay back the money
Fin24 True, but more relevant, it would have solved his cash in pocket problem. Putin could have had another puppet
Fin24 Technically speaking he is right...
Fin24 It takes between 5 to 10yrs to build a nuclear power station...and years before that in planning....this fool lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land. Maths genius 🙄🤔🤷♂️
Fin24 The nuclear ☢️ station would be ready neh?
Fin24 Dude. You couldn't get Mdupi x 2 completed. Nuclear is a pipe dream
Fin24 Yes but not under his watch and not done by his halaal friends
Fin24 Eish poor chap
Fin24 Blah blah blah
Fin24 True
Fin24 Not if it's managed by incompetent people...then we will have a Chernobyl 2.0. The 'energy crisis' could've been avoided if the MYANC led government listened to the real experts. But oh well, it's all going to the Marxist Communistic plan....
Fin24 Bloody greedy so-and-so
Fin24 This is what our Minister of energy is also saying but sadly he never supported the idea then but only now.
Fin24 THEFT of funds is the reason!.PAY BACK THE MONEY!!!!
Fin24 Him not being born too...
Fin24 Tell him to give back the money from his guptas that would also have solved load shedding
Fin24 And what would have solved corruption during his reign of destruction and theft
Fin24 Man I can’t handle this shithead anymore.When will he be sitting in Modder B .I want to visit and have a personal chat with Zupta.
Fin24 Who is going to maintain the nuclear plants, rather stay with diesel and coal fukushima without an earthquake eskom
Fin24 Same as Kasile and Madupi delivered. My faith in specification delivery of power plants tendered by Escom has gone. Chernobyl?
Fin24 zupta missed a big loot there....
Fin24 Not looting eskom with the curry brothers could have prevented Load shedding
Fin24 First sign of an intellengence we all knew he has all along 👍
Fin24 Central nuclear has more risk than the central thermic that we currently using. So for me ( as an electrician) we need to look around and may be seek for help... congo has hydrolic central
Fin24 Zuma may not be great when it comes to numbers but you must admit he has a wicked sense of humor 😂 I kinda miss him
Fin24 could have also lined his pocket,ballooned his offshore bank account and sorted his pension and his multiple wives.Too bad Zuma, Safricans saved by the bell.
Fin24 Zuma dose know it takes over 20 years to build that nuclear power thou😏
Fin24 Is Jacob Zuma still on about this nuclear thingy? The man must just move on. 😒
Fin24 Proper management and government agreement with experts would have prevented it. Zuma just wanted to solve one problem by creating another. LoadShedding
Fin24 Another master piece by News24.
Fin24 A better solution would have been to allow IPPs to feed power into the grid. Far more cost effective and reliable. But alas, all they care about are themselves...
Fin24 Really Zupta ,firstly do you know how long a nuclear power station takes to construct... it would of never been ready in time anyway and considering the cost of 1trillion oh let’s not forget the over runs. Just considering the medupi and kusile this nuclear wud not be completed.
Fin24 Of course he says that.
Fin24 yes, th time they decide to do it, i will be very expensive..be the billions given to eskom would have paid for th nuclear power plant
VijayShadean Fin24 Maybe.... but think of what happens during a strike.... SAFNOBYL
Fin24 Zuma has a mental illness
Fin24 Zuma: This is the same approach taken by ALL the crooks & rogues in the ANC: When they are caught red-handed and/or there is a paper trail they can't argue against, then they just blandly deny they acted with malign intent: It was all for the good of SA! Ja, right!
Fin24 Now he's showing his Std 4 education.
Fin24 Never believe him even in million years to come.
Fin24 OUTASA PigSpotter now I'm convinced. We have loadshedding today. If nuclear had been pushed through they wouldn't have even broken soil yet. Some people never know when to keep their mouths closed. Might get foot in it.
Fin24 Zuma is just trying to shield his bad intentions about nuclear deal. He was going to make millions. He is at the centre of State Capture. He is greedy.
Fin24 Askaba aretena oo
Fin24 wasted 9 yrs under him so he's armchair critics
Fin24 I don't think we would be operating on nuclear by now, even if it was given 👍👍 We should maintain our resources, from water dams to bridges and railway lines But then again, we're South Africans...
Fin24 At whose cost could we really afford it with all the money you stole.
Fin24 He's one of the reasons we are where we are now. Just go sit in the corner and shut up.
Fin24 Does he know how long was it going to take..lol
Fin24 Nuclear would have been finished in 10 years from now. If we were lucky. Is that what 30% maths give us?
Fin24 Mxm.. Uphambene lotata
Fin24 Wake up Sir it won't because the would have ended up in the wrong accounts.
Fin24 What does Zuma know ?
Fin24 When you were in charge.... Why didn't you do it then..... No good talking about it now
Fin24 And you repaying for your Nkandla could pay for coal for power
Fin24 Sure... & in the process mortgaged the country for the next century. Useless information karynmaughan
Fin24 You actually print this crap
Fin24 Traitor GautengANC
Fin24 Been deprived of his future trillions 😰😰😰😰😰
Fin24 Not the time for could've, should've.
Fin24 He is not wrong.....it probably would've solved the Load Shedding issue....BUT we would've been FUCKED financially. Or presidents only think about the now issue....they do not think for the future.
Fin24 How long does this idiot think it takes to build a nuclear power station With all the corruption that goes with it in SA, around 20 years would be my best guesstimate. So if we had have gone down that road, they would not even turned the first sod of soil by now.
Fin24 This guy really does not get it🤔
Fin24 So could the existing capacity of Eskom if it was properly maintained
Fin24 NO, maintenance would have!!!!
Fin24 Medupi and Kusile could have solved load shedding.
Fin24 Would have broken the bank,but WTF that’s already happened,IDIOT 🙈
Fin24 He says a lot of things that should be ignored.
Fin24 i.e. would have solved his legal cost issues
Fin24 Would you trust the government to finance, maintain and service Nuclear ☢️ Consequences? Fallout of another kind.
Fin24 I thought he said that people outside want him to disappear, and now he talks nuclear which he promised Putin. The cleve black in me assume that the outside people is Russian mafia led by Putin. Msholozi took their bribe money and now they're threatening him. Hmm,... kuzoba lit.
Fin24 With the incompetence and corruption in this country highly doubtful - not only would we not have power imagine nuclear energy in the hands of the clowns - we would all be dead
Fin24 Why are we still updated about this guy's views and opinions... The dude had 9 years to bail us out.
Fin24 What about Medupi and Kusile where we spend Billions,should it not the ANC which wanted to milk from the project,we should have solve the load shedding .
Fin24 At what cost,it’s not affordable,every project that started under his presidency has not been finished and the money is gone.
Fin24 Can you plz solve it.
Fin24 Haaaa what about the trillion nton nton?oh we see...someone did not get his share?ncaaaa greed hey Shem askies Baba!!!
Fin24 We need to stop giving this crook platforms to insult our intelligence like this. At least with his Twitter account, we can block or mute him.
Fin24 Having no “State Capture, “would have resolved Escom lack of delivery 🚚..it’s killing a whole Country...
Fin24
Fin24 He will know mos. He is up there with the nuclear scientists. Sharing math puzzles on WhatsApp.
Fin24 Kunjalo nje Msholozi
Fin24 Eskom says they don’t have money! Was government going to pay with Monopoly money? Muppets!
Fin24 He should have stopped saying anything 10years ago! jokeofapresident
Fin24 He never cared about Loadshedding
Fin24 Uyaxoka
Fin24 It's gonna be so nice when he can't tweet in prison.
Fin24 Ag please
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