Nuclear: Zuma ‘did not run Russia deal’

Published Sep 29, 2014

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THE ENERGY Department denied on Saturday a report that President Jacob Zuma had interfered with the nuclear deal with Russia and instructed Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson to sign the deal. “The department wishes to refute all allegations of ‘undue influence’ by the president towards concluding this agreement,” the acting director-general of the Energy Department, Wolsey Barnard, said in a statement. “The allegations are baseless and at worst ludicrous.” On Friday the Mail&Guardian reported that Zuma took control of a multibillion-rand nuclear deal, negotiated directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and instructed Joemat-Pettersson to sign it. – Sapa

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