How the Multibillion Rand Powership Tender Was Legally Rigged

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

Powerships: How the multibillion-rand tender was (legally) rigged

The rules of the government’s emergency power programme were questionable from the beginning. Then a series of dramatic changes and inexplicable decisions steered the multibillion-rand tender towards …

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The rules of the government’s emergency power programme were questionable from the beginning. Then a series of dramatic changes and inexplicable decisions steered the multibillion-rand tender towards a ‘predetermined’ end.

Every trick in the book deployed to steer this where they wanted it to go.

 

[Quicks]

Thought they would cancel the deal seeing they found evidence of corruption?

 

[Gordon_R]

/ surprise

The details were not previously clear, but everything about this process reeked of tender manipulation.

 

[livw88]

TL;DR version

 

[blah99]

Viva ANC Viva!

 

[SlowInternet]

Most of the tenders in our country are rigged

 

[zll]

ANC is struggling right now. Most of their funders have disappeared and the corruption taps are closing. They have to get the money somehow.

 

[Solitude]

Klomp skelms.

It's what the people want. They don't care about load shedding or service delivery. The ANC can do whatever they want.

 

[Currantly]

Powerships: How the tender kneecapped renewables and favoured gas​

When the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy launched its urgent tender last August to mitigate loadshedding, it had one claimed goal: get cost-effective power to Eskom as quickly as possible.

But when hopeful bidders looked at the rules of the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMI4P), it seemed to many there was another agenda at play: channel the lion's share of the multibillion-rand, 20-year contracts to the budding gas industry.

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