Conflict of interest threatens electricity minister's Eskom diesel plan

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Eskom's big diesel problem

Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says Eskom will raise R30 billion to fund diesel sourced directly from wholesalers.

However, this would mean a loss of revenue for PetroSA — a state-owned company reporting to energy minister Gwede Mantashe — and the deal could create a conflict of interest within the African National Congress' ranks.
 
So can't they buy half the diesel from PetroSA, to employ the useless cadres, and the other half at wholesale prices? Win/Win?
 
Had there been no conflict of interest this mister sees have a magic wand to fix the problems that God even can not. All bloody talk and no work is how things work for this Minister
 
Who is paying for all this diesel?
More trucks in the road.
More theft and corruption.
Eish.....

They gonna deliver water to Eskom.
 
Gaz{M} said:
So can't they buy half the diesel from PetroSA, to employ the useless cadres, and the other half at wholesale prices? Win/Win?
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Any extra costs via PetroSA is a loss for the economy and paid for by consumers.

The best approach for South Africa is to use the least cost method with no RAF/SANRAL/other taxes on the fuel.
Buy discount diesel from Russia if you have to.
 
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HumanShield said:
Its an open secret this. The NEC runs the country. They like to bring party and state when it suits them. But its really the NEC that's calling everything
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Yeah its quite depressing in a way that this country is "run" by 87 fscking stupid individuals who have zero idea how to actually do anything...
 
Asked whether this isn’t the exact plan former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter proposed, Yelland said it was.
“Yes, it was proposed by André de Ruyter. It was shot down by the energy minister [Gwede Mantashe],” he said.

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Simple win-win equation; Create a viable biodiesel industry in SA, creating hundreds of jobs in the agriculture and related fields, let PetroSA do the coordinated buying and quality control on the biodiesel produced by these small scale producers and then sell it on to Eskom. I had already proposed something similar when the draft Biofuels Act came out for comment, but no-one was interested. What's that saying, "as jy wil nie luister nie, moet jy voel"?
 
Same old sad story regarding this whole mess, inherently fixable, but any decent solutions are scuppered by the ANC being the ANC. :mad:
 
Tony Garcia said:
Simple win-win equation; Create a viable biodiesel industry in SA, creating hundreds of jobs in the agriculture and related fields, let PetroSA do the coordinated buying and quality control on the biodiesel produced by these small scale producers and then sell it on to Eskom. I had already proposed something similar when the draft Biofuels Act came out for comment, but no-one was interested. What's that saying, "as jy wil nie luister nie, moet jy voel"?
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What would these billions of litres of biodiesel be made from?
 
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