AfriForum launched an application in terms of the Promotion of Access Information Act, 2000 (Act No. 2 of 2000) to review the documentation regarding Brian Molefe’s return to Eskom. It follows from allegations that Molefe was not reappointed but with unpaid leave. “Someone in Eskom – whether Molefe himself, councilor Lynne Brown or other senior..
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Internal Political Chess Game at Eskom Can Leave SA In Dark
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12 000 ‘dead people’ doing business with SA government – Treasury
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It has also identified about 14,000 state employees who are listed as directors of companies that have been awarded state contracts in violation of regulations. South Africa’s National Treasury has discovered about 12,000 dead people in its register of companies that do business with the state. This is among the outcomes of a clean-up of..
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Some good news:- Court throws out fracking application for KZN.
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The Western Cape High Court has set aside a prospecting right application, which could have opened the way for fracking in South Africa. The court’s decision could put the brakes on a number of similar prospecting applications if they followed the same process. Fracking has not yet been signed off in South Africa. But a..
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Eskom warns of winter power cuts – unless Treasury signs new coal deals with Gupta owned company
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Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane has warned that South Africans can expect power cuts this winter unless the National Treasury urgently signs purchase agreements so Eskom can build up its coal reserves, according to a report by TimesLive. Speaking at the sidelines of African Utility Week conference at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Ngubane noted..
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ANC has ordered Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown and the Eskom board to rescind Brian Molefe’s return.
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“We met with Lynne Brown and all of us present said ‘comrades, that decision must be rescinded’,” ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe. The party’s top six summoned Brown to Luthuli House on Monday. He said the party warned that the matter was likely to end up in court. The DA approached the high court in..
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Spoiled brat of the Gupta’s is back in the seat and reinstated as Eskom CEO
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Despite outrage by the ANC as well as pretty much every other opposition party and South African, Brian Molefe has been reinstated as Eskom CEO, just a few months after quitting — in the wake of his name appearing on the State of capture report alongside the Guptas and several other Zuma allies within the..
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Nuclear deal ruled as unlawful and unconstitutional: Learn all about the dark secrets of this shady deal
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The Western Cape High Court ruled on Wednesday that the South African government’s nuclear agreements with Russia, Korea and the US were unlawful and unconstitutional. In a landmark ruling, the Court also scrapped the South African government’s decision to buy about eight nuclear power stations — 9600MW of nuclear power. This decision was first gazetted..
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Eskom bent over backwards to award the Gupta family a R4bn coal supply contract
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Tegeta Exploration and Resources is owned by the Gupta family and President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane. Treasury has been at loggerheads with Eskom over the Tegeta deal ever since its investigations of contracts over R10m at the power utility. The Sunday Times revealed that former Eskom boss Brian Molefe and Eskom board chairperson Ben Ngubane..
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The True Reason behind the sacking of Gordan and what will happen next
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What explains the allegedly irrational decisions taken by the South African government over recent days? Two explanations suggest themselves. The first is that the decisions were not irrational, but part of a calculated power-play designed to further entrench the Zuma-aligned faction of the African National Congress (ANC). The second is that Mr Zuma took the..
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Eskom Customers will be Paying Twice for their Electricity due to “The African Way”
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The civil rights organisation AfriForum is worried that municipalities that owe Eskom money will have consumers coughing up to pay off these debts. AfriForum will therefore introduce a project today in 102 AfriForum branches country wide to empower communities to provide input regarding the drafting of municipalities’ integrated development plans (IDPs) and concept budgets. This..
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