Recently the DA has chosen to stick a spanner in the works as the ANC attempt to build a second nuclear plant for South Africa.

You would think that a clean, efficient, and safe energy source like nuclear would be right up their alley. After all, the DA are supporters of the ANC’s ludicrously draconian Climate Change Act, which imposes economic central planning powers to the Minister which allow for direct intervention in the running of individual businesses.

After all, nuclear would be the most effective, stable and reliable way to replace the coal-fired stations in the country. Despite their high initial capital costs, nuclear stations offer relatively cheap maintenance costs, extremely stable power supply, and lower emissions (radioactive or otherwise) than any other power source.

The industries behind wind and solar cause enormous environmental harms, and have unstable power supplies which require much more robust transmission systems and backup power from oil and gas.

But much like the last time a nuclear deal was cancelled in 2017, the DA has partnered with the ruthless foreign-funded environmentalist NGO Earthlife Africa (ELA) who are rabidly anti-nuclear. While it is obvious that money would be pilfered in both the previous nuclear deal (and any other deal the ANC undertakes), the idea that the economy must grind to a halt waiting for the government to become as squeaky-clean as Switzerland is unrealistic in the extreme.

But perhaps there are other pressures at work here.

Like the DA, ELA receives large donations from quasi-nongovernmental organisations attached to the German government. Germany is well known for taking a massive kneejerk decision under former Chancellor Angela Merkel to hobble their industrial base by ending nuclear power in the country, after the Fukushima incident in Japan (despite Germany's plants not being under threat of earthquake and tsunami damage, as Japan is).

There is an unusual amount of activity in South Africa by German-sponsored environmentalists, who have sought to block offshore gas drilling, and coal, gas and nuclear-powered electricity generation.

Aside from the deep-pocketed Earthlife Africa, there is also Russian emigré Vladimir Slivyak, who was key in the intelligence operation that leaked the Zuma nuclear deal. He has returned to South Africa to attempt to force the government to shut down our only nuclear station Koeberg, under the auspices of his NGO “Ecodefense!” (exclamation point included).

Ecodefense itself is a subsidiary of an organisation called Frontline Defenders, who are funded by most NATO governments, as well as NGOs that have been used as money-laundering operations for the CIA for several decades, like the Ford Foundation, as well as the ubiquitous Open Society Foundation.

It would be reasonable to induce, if you assumed the DA were entirely on the up-and-up, that their intercession in the courts in March was motivated purely by the need to see the boxes checked.

But as this paper has reported, the DA has little love for public input in power projects. The massively overinflated waste-to-energy project in Drakenstein has been repeatedly attacked by the local community for its wildly inflated price, its expensive and fallacious environmental impact assessments, and the repeated insistence on lying to the public about intensions to cancel the project.

Yet the DA, on the very day they promised the public they would cancel the project, reached out to the ANC to fund it from the National grant budget.

Part of the reason for this is that the party is dedicated to the Social Development Goals, a set of socialist global central-planning policies forming the doctrine of the United Nations, erected by the United states as a means for controlling the global political economy after their military conquest of most of the world in WWII, and which were finally unchallenged after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Among the recent adaptations of these policies, in collaboration with international banking systems, has been the system of carbon credits, which the DA aims to accumulate by building waste-to-energy plants across the areas they govern.

Additionally, Alan Winde (the only senior politician in the DA with an alternative donor network to the Zille faction’s ties to the local oligarchs and Western state affiliates) has been a keen pursuer of wind and solar energy since he was first placed in the provincial executive in 2011.

The Special Economic Zone in Atlantis, where he aims to concentrate green industries, is his baby - his modest attempt to get around the bosses’ insistences at the time that the Cape should not try to generate their own electricity but rather “trust the ANC” to get Eskom back on track.

While this is of course all circumstantial, it does little to assuage my concerns about the DA’s motivations and political character, which seem increasingly divorced from reality, liberty, or anything the voters actually care about.

Personally, I don’t care about CO2, but I do think the health risks coal plants pose to those who live near them is worthy of consideration, and so I do support as much of a move away from it as possible.

But nuclear is the only real solution, and the only people saying otherwise are funded by foreign governments, which should give us all pause.

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