South Africans will remain in the dark about the government's proposed nuclear new-build programme after a parliamentary oversight workshop, due to be held yesterday, was cancelled."Unavailability of MPs" was the reason parliamentary officials gave, although the workshop was in the middle of the parliamentary sitting and almost all MPs were in Cape Town this week for presidential questions on Tuesday.At the workshop, scheduled for yesterday and today, the Department of Energy was due to brief the parliamentary portfolio committee on energy.On the agenda was an update on the tabling of legislation, an update on the integrated energy plan, the gas utilisation master plan, the biogas strategy and national electrification master plan.Updates on the liquid fuels master pla; problems at the Central Energy Fund, including the sale of strategic oil reserves; the nuclear new-build plan; the radioactive waste-disposal plan; Mineral Petroleum Resources Development Act;solar-heating programme; and the renewable energy programme were also scheduled to be discussed.Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said last week a call for proposals on nuclear new-build would be issued next week...