Johannesburg - Greenpeace has filed papers in the High Court in Pretoria to try and compel Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson to update the country's nuclear liability regulations, it said on Friday.
The fact that the South African government was pushing ahead with controversial plans for new nuclear investment meant the country's liability regime needed to be scrutinised carefully, the environmental organisation's executive director in Africa, Michael O'Brien Onyeka, said in a statement.
"So that at a minimum, the maximum of amount protection is given to the citizens of this country."