Bad power deals and good leadership
Nuclear by Karyn Maughan & Kirsten Pearson (Tafelberg, R320)
outh Africa’s relationship with Russia would have been even closer if Vladimir Putin’s ‘silver bullet’ answer to Eskom’s problems had gone through. It was a deal pressed home while then-president Jacob Zuma was in Russia recovering from what he believed to be poisoning. Those responsible, Zuma claimed, were US spies,
