Government recently awarded a contract to resuscitate PetroSA's mothballed old Mossgas refinery project in the Southern Cape to Gazprombank, an affiliate of Gazprom, the giant Russian energy company.
It's quite remarkable, but yes, South Africa has committed to giving a Russian state company billions of taxpayer rands, while another Moscow-based company eyes a new nuclear deal, writes Pieter du Toit.
We might be in the death throes of 2023, and thank Providence, we don’t have an ANC conference to cover, but a series of events over the last week or so points to turbulence ahead.
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