In December it was reported that Dr Renfrew CHRISTIE, of the University of Cape Town is to be charged with disclosing information relating to nuclear energy in South Africa, although he had not appeared in court by the end of the year.
Newspaper reports indicated that Dr Christie, former NUSAS office bearer who obtained his doctorate at Oxford University and returned to UCT in 1979 to study the South African coal industry, was thought to have compiled reports on the nuclear power station being built at Koeberg and on South Africa's mineral and oil resources, and to have sent these to the ANC. Under the Atomic Energy Act the maximum penalty is 20 years and/or R10,000 fine.
