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How Karpowership was torpedoed by substandard environmental studies
25 June, 2021
The R225-billion powerships deal may finally be sunk by the environment department’s refusal to authorise the Turkish-led consortium’s projects.
Powership company trails corruption claims in its wake
19 June, 2021
The Turkish company that won a controversial bid to plug the hole in Eskom’s electricity supply has been dogged by corruption accusations abroad.
Powerships: Enviro investigation could capsize R225-billion deal
The Karpowership SA consortium is weeks away from its deadline to wrap up a 20-year electricity supply deal with Eskom.
Powerships: Officials confirm they met rival bidder, ‘minister’s associates’ at Kream
3 June, 2021
Last month, gas-to-power entrepreneur Aldworth Mbalati made explosive allegations of corruption in a court application.
Karpowership slams rival bidder in corruption case
28 May, 2021
The Turkish-led consortium has, in court papers, denied any involvement in corruption.
Update: McKinsey to return R870m state-capture money to Transnet
25 May, 2021
The money was earned from a three-year partnership between the consulting behemoth and state capture enabler Regiments Capital.
Analysis: Nothing but Zuma’s deflection
19 May, 2021
Independent Newspapers reveal “hot off the press” transcripts – dated 2008 and public since 2015 – involving amaBhungane’s joint managing partner and the prosecutor in the former president’s arms corruption trial.
Cashing in on Ekurhuleni’s money for the poor?
A City of Ekurhuleni aid programme to benefit the poor was generously expanded – but the beneficiaries were often commercial companies, raising questions about misplaced priorities and political favours.
Powerships: How the multi-billion-rand tender was (legally) rigged
14 May, 2021
The rules of government’s emergency power programme were questionable from the beginning.
Powerships: How the tender kneecapped renewables and favoured gas
Hundreds of pages of “briefing notes” reveal that frustrated renewable bidders warned government that nonsensical rules of the emergency power programme would force bidders to burn fossil fuels and result in consumers paying more than they need to for electricity.
Millions out, billions in part II: Company that paid millions to the ANC and Malema scored big in Ekurhuleni
4 May, 2021
Some days Thulani Majola gave generously to the ANC; some days he gave to EFF leader Julius Malema.
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