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The former national treasury director-general and chairman of the Government Employees Pension Fund, Dondo Mogajane, has resigned from all professional roles and board positions. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Treasury needs an insider director general

But the department’s already reduced ranks may make it difficult to find someone with the technical know-how and clout to replace Dondo Mogajane

Late former deputy president David Mabuza. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Mabuza says he was hospitalised in Russia at his own cost

The speaker of parliament intervened when the DA demanded the deputy president comment on rumours he had been poisoned, saying health information was confidential

The battle for 2050 energy dominance: Nuclear industry makes its pitch

Nuclear sector says it should be poised to take up more than 50% of the 24GW left vacant by coal

President Donald Trump. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Trump says Iran ‘playing with fire’ after nuclear deal limit breached

​US President Trump warned on Monday that Iran is "playing with fire" after Tehran said it exceeded a limit on enriched uranium reserves

US President Donald Trump (left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to “resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Nuclear stalemate one year after Trump-Kim summit — analysts

In Singapore, Kim signed a vaguely-worded deal on denuclearisation, touted by Trump as a historic breakthrough

According to Fuzile, Zuma also said that in other countries “finance ministers do not tell presidents that there is no money”. (Waldo Swiegers/Getty)

Nuclear deal would have dealt a blow to SA economy —Fuzile

The drive for nuclear energy has been cited by ratings agencies as a major reason for credit downgrades

North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and US president Donald Trump. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump, Kim smile and sign their names into history

President Trump and Kim Jong-un have signed an agreement as a commitment that their countries will work together

Points taken: Stormers flyhalf Demetri Catrakilis can be relied on to kick penalties and conversions but the Cape Town team will need tries as well to defeat the Lions.

DD must tell Putin the deal’s off

The deputy president and Jacob Zuma are both in Russia to meet the newly re-elected head of state

A parody of the iconic Iwo Jima picture

Why Iran will exit its nuclear deal

The nuclear deal was a political shield for Iran. After the US’s pull-out, pressure for regime change will be back on the table

Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said she had appointed the task team based on its “strength and capabilities” and had believed its members would do their jobs without any form of corruption.
(David Harrison/M&G)

Sisulu warns about threat of nuclear war between world’s major powers

‘We continue to fight against injustice because we have to. We, who have suffered so much, can ill-afford suffering in any part of the world’

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced an “extraordinary coronavirus budget” on Tuesday. (Reuters)

Ramaphosa concerned over Trump’s withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal

​President Ramaphosa has noted "with deep concern" the decision by the United States to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, calling it a step back

Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant.

Nuclear still part of SA energy mix, says department of energy

The country may have to​ consider nuclear power again in about 2023 if the economy were to grow strongly

The three women

Trump denounces ‘brutal and corrupt’ Iranian regime

"All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their pockets."

Recent comments by President Jacob Zuma and his new minister of energy David Mahlobo

Zuma’s allies are once again gung-ho about nuclear. Will they get their way?

President Jacob Zuma seems to be making a final push to secure the nuclear power deal before his tenure comes to an end. But it won’t be easy.

Come clean: Activists in Durban protest against the use of nuclear power. With the court ruling

The hurdles nuclear must now clear

A recent judgment means the energy department has a long way to go before it can realise its nuclear dream

Celebrations outside the Western Cape High Court after it ruled against the South African government’s proposed nuclear deal.

Court ruling on Zuma’s nuclear deal is a marker of South Africa’s political health

The court ruling which declared South Africa’s nuclear energy plan as illegal may have put paid Zuma’s ambitions of clinching during his presidency

Position of power: Mmamoloko Kubayi is sworn in as energy minister after President Jacob Zuma appointed her to replace Tina Joemat-Pettersson

Ex-SSA man given top energy post

The new minister says: ‘He’s not here as a spook … he was my choice … and not forced on my office’

(John McCann)

State’s hopes for a nuclear future nuked

After the court scuppered the government’s plans, it will be years before any new build gets green-lit

This is what’s inside Malusi Gigaba’s inbox

At last Zuma has a person in place who will deliver on the R1-trillion power station deal.

Uber has suggested that the ministry delay the implementation of clause 66 (7) until the current challenges are resolved. (Reuters)

Editorial: ‘Predatory elite’ eye nuclear deal

Is the nuclear deal going ahead or not? Will SA take adequate precautions to ensure it doesn’t overly indebt the nation? There are no clear answers.