South African President Jacob Zuma keeps reshuffling his Government to assert nuclear diplomacy as a personal foreign policy instrument at the expense of domestic energy supply. Unless transparency issues in the country’s unhealthy energy politics are resolved, now-stifled policy discord may eventually propel the country towards a leadership crisis and present risks for nuclear non-proliferation.

This report, the latest from CAI's Counter Proliferation research unit, argues that SA's future nuclear energy plans are pivoting on foreign policy objectives and raising issues of concern for nuclear non-proliferation.