Mantashe restates his positions on energy at conference, but highlights nuclear

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe delivered his third keynote address to his third international energy conference in Cape Town, in as many weeks, on Tuesday. This time it was to Africa Energy Week. Unsurprisingly, the three speeches differed only slightly in content and more significantly in arrangement. In this address, he gave greater stress to nuclear energy than in the previous two versions he had delivered. He highlighted that South Africa’s energy resources included uranium.