Goldman prize awarded to South African women who stopped an international nuclear deal
by Jonathan Wattsin Cape Town from on (#3NDRV)
Winners of the world's leading environmental award faced down Vladimir Putin and the country's recently deposed leader, Jacob Zuma, to overturn a multibillion-dollar nuclear deal
Two grassroots women activists - one black, one white - stand together against two of the world's most powerful men - one black, one white - over a secret, undemocratic, multibillion dollar nuclear deal.
If this was the plot of a Netflix series, it might be dismissed as too neat, too perfectly symbolic and symmetrical.