{"id":14544,"date":"2021-07-14T20:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T20:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=14544"},"modified":"2025-01-28T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:58:46","slug":"special-report-tenders-and-powerships-all-amabs-stories-on-the-rmi4p-emergency-power-bidding-process-karpowership-sa-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/special-report-tenders-and-powerships-all-amabs-stories-on-the-rmi4p-emergency-power-bidding-process-karpowership-sa-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Special project: Tenders and powerships \u2014 all amaB&#8217;s stories on the RMI4P emergency power bidding process, Karpowership SA and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will find all our reports, interviews and more below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3 December 2021<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/clumsy-nersa-redaction-reveals-higher-cost-of-emergency-power\/\"><em>Clumsy Nersa redaction reveals \u201chigher\u201d cost of emergency power<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>16 July 2021<\/strong><em><strong>: <\/strong><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210715-green-scorpions-close-in\/\">Green Scorpions close in as Karpowership tries to save R225-billion deal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>12 July 2021: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210712_powerships-inside-the-karadeniz-money-spinning-global-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerships: Inside the Karadeniz money-spinning global empire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>12 June 2021: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210712-karpowership-sa-how-much-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karpowership SA: How much again?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch: We discuss Karpowerships and what it&#8217;s like being an investigative reporter at amaBhungane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>12 July 2021: <\/strong><strong>Karpowership explainer eBook<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* <a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/210712_Karpower-slide_desktop.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ebook explainer for desktop<\/em><\/a><br>* <a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/210712_Karpower-slide_mobile.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ebook explainer for mobile<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>25 June 2021<\/strong><em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210625-how-karpowership-was-torpedoed-by-substandard-environmental-studies\/\">How Karpowership was torpedoed by substandard environmental studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>19 June 2021: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210619-powership-company-trails-corruption-claims-in-its-wake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powership company trails corruption claims in its wake<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10 June 2021:<\/strong><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210610powerships-enviro-investigation-could-capsize-r225-billion-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerships: Enviro investigation could capsize R225-billion deal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>03 June 2021: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210603-powerships-officials-confirm-they-met-bidder-ministers-associates-at-kream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerships: Officials confirm they met rival bidder, \u2018minister\u2019s associates\u2019 at Kream<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>28 May 2021:<\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210528-karpowership-slams-rival-bidder-in-corruption-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Karpowership slams rival bidder in corruption case<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>14 May 2021: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210514-powerships-how-the-multi-billion-rand-tender-was-legally-rigged\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerships: How the multi-billion-rand tender was (legally) rigged<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>14 May 2021<\/strong><em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210514-powerships-how-the-tender-kneecapped-renewables-and-favoured-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerships: How the tender kneecapped renewables and favoured gas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>28 April 2021: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/stories\/210428-powerships-losing-bidder-claims-blatant-corruption-fingers-mantashe-associate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powerships: Losing bidder claims \u2018blatant corruption\u2019, fingers Mantashe \u2018associate\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Records of Decision on Karpowership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22128390-karpowership-appeal_coega_decision?responsive=1&amp;title=1\">Karpowership Appeal_Coega_Decision<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22128391-karpowership-appeal_richards-bay_decision?responsive=1&amp;title=1\">Karpowership Appeal_Richards Bay_Decision<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22128392-karpowership-appeal_saldanha_decision?responsive=1&amp;title=1\">Karpowership Appeal_Saldanha_Decision<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AmaBhungane discussion on energy and Karpowerships\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V0vcP1uJXw8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" 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Allegations, as exposed by AmaBhungane, bring into question the true intent of those involved in the process. To know more about those allegations, dig into our archive of work on this controversial tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1280,2],"tags":[3,460,624,660,117,661,662,388,663,626,550,474,354],"class_list":["post-14544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karpowership","category-stories","tag-amabhungane","tag-dewald-van-rensburg","tag-dng-energy","tag-energy-tender","tag-eskom","tag-karpowerships","tag-loadshedding","tag-micah-reddy","tag-ports","tag-powerships","tag-sam-sole","tag-susan-comrie","tag-tenders"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29991,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions\/29991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}