Eskom diesel contracts shocker

How predictable! Another case of more Cadre middlemen/women to skim off our money,,, will anyone investigate with the truth in mind?
 
I don't have a problem if a beautician or a dentists can supply diesel to Eskom at the best price. Until the bid and tender award prices are known, one has to ask why these two were the cheapest. The assumption is that Eskom went for the best price, of course.
 
The Sunday Times reported that KEKOIL and Kamoso were newcomers to the energy sector when they got the deals, and did not meet Eskom’s BEE criteria.
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If they didn’t meet the requirements they shouldn’t have been awarded the contracts. The issue of delivery or failure thereof is irrelevant.
 
Arthur said:
I don't have a problem if a beautician or a dentists can supply diesel to Eskom at the best price. Until the bid and tender award prices are known, one has to ask why these two were the cheapest. The assumption is that Eskom went for the best price, of course.
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PPPFA. They were probably slightly more expensive than the other tenderers, but are obviously 100% BBBEE complaint.
 
I understand the questions on whether or not they delivered or not. And that should be in the end the final arbiter on the whole deal.

It is however, an unfortunate truth of our government and the parastatals, that corruption is rife and that often the small bits of smoke point to the fire at the other end. Once you start pulling the bit of string, the whole can of worms tumble out.

The big question is immediately how a beautician and dentist can suddenly enter the world of oil financing and compete with established players. If we look at what we can see, this is suspicious. Pull a few more threads. On Kamoso, the only image I could find that was not a stock photo, is the logo. They did not even bother to change the dollar and gallon on the image of the fuel pump.

Kekoil also consists of only stock photos. 1986 Ngwenya Drive is in what looks like a suburban area.
The domain was only registered in 2012. Four years after Kekoil PTY LTD was established.

And this was just a quick 15 minute dig. What would an investigative reporter with some proper resources be able to find?
 
Interestingly if you Google this exact phrase from the article:

"an independent procurer of petroleum products, that markets and supplies to commercial customers, government and parastatals who
use high volumes of petroleum products"

You get BBT Energy, Lelethu Petroleum Trading (Pty) Ltd, Kamoso Fuels & TSWELLA TRADING (LinkedIn profile).

What is the chances that 4 different companies would use the exact same phrase in their company profile?

Coincidence, I think not.

Guess we are getting royally screwed on these BEE fuel deals .....
 
A dentist and a beautician were benefiting from multimillion rand contracts to supply diesel to Eskom, the Sunday Times reported.

Dentist Dr Mazine Kekana's company KEKOIL and beauty therapist Monica Nkosi's firm Kamoso Fuels were reportedly given deals to supply diesel to Eskom.

The publication reported that the two companies were relatively new to the energy sector at the time of getting the deals and did not meet Eskom's broad-based black economic empowerment criteria.

Kekana reportedly confirmed that she supplied diesel to Eskom and met the criteria for BBBEE.

Nkosi confirmed having supplied diesel but "we don't have like a formal contract".

Both companies reportedly confirmed they were among bidders for a multimillion rand tender to supply diesel to Eskom's Ankerlig power station at Atlantis in the Western Cape.

On Thursday, the Eskom board asked four senior executives, including chief executive Tshediso Matona, to step aside as the power utility embarked on a fact-finding inquiry into its problems.

The other three are finance director Tsholofelo Molefe, group capital executive Dan Morokane and commercial and technology executive Matshela Koko.

The Democratic Alliance said on Sunday in a statement it would ask Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown to launch an inquiry into Eskom's diesel procurement orders.

"Minister Brown must provide Parliament with a detailed list of transactions with all its diesel suppliers and a timeline of those contracts," said MP Natasha Mazzone.

She said media reports regarding Eskom's diesel suppliers raised "serious questions regarding the processes followed to identify suppliers and whether due diligence was exercised in the thousands of deals made to procure diesel".
 
ROFLOL: Long before this is over, little Mz Lynne Browne is going to beg for a nice quiet
posting as ambassador to Kyrgyztan. Tiny Jo-Ma-Se-Pettersson will gut her like a fish, and everything
going on is just so far above her pay grade, it's really exciting to watch, like a really lurid episode of
the Bad Girls Club
 
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