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ANC 'involved' in Eskom tender

Feb 01 2008 13:48 Michael Hamlyn

Cape Town - The opposition Democratic Alliance is to ask public enterprises minister Alec Erwin why Eskom's tender procedures were flouted in a way that appeared to favour a bid from a company linked to the ANC itself.

Ian Davidson, the DA chief whip said on Friday that Chancellor House, said to be an ANC front company, had signed another extremely lucrative contract with Eskom, almost doubling the ANC's stake in Eskom's expansion programme. It "shows yet again that the ANC does neither understand nor care about the
distinction between party and state", Davidson said.

"The ANC - through Chancellor House - already owns 25% of Hitachi Power Africa, giving it a R3bn stake in a R20bn Eskom tender to build its new power station, under construction in Limpopo," Davidson said.

"Preferential treatment"

"It has now been awarded a similar tender to build a power station in Mpumalanga, without the project going out on tender," he added. "This cements the perception that due to Hitachi Africa's direct links to the ANC, it is being
given preferential treatment when it comes to the awarding of multibillion-rand tenders. This is precisely the kind of abuse that comes about when the governing party is involved in deals of this kind."

He said that it was little wonder then that the party was able to present surprisingly healthy financial results in December, when in it was able to use state resources for its own financial gain.

"This is the worst form of crony capitalism, which left unchecked will lead SA even further down the road to becoming a criminal state," Davidson concluded.

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ILoveSA
Oct 25 2009 14:20 Report this comment

A black man is the most corrupt individual on God's green Earth and can't do anything right, so who's surprised?

D
Feb 05 2008 13:44 Report this comment

....The African wheel has started turning and no matter what the consequences, it is the African way and therefore the only way..... From growing to drowning in a few years and when there is problems you are blaming other poeple or countries or asking for help..... You must look at yourself or its going to end up like zim.......

POELien
Feb 04 2008 15:13 Report this comment

You go Sipho !!. Crisis, what crisis; corruption, what corruption? As per Sipho: "This is the African way things work. If you don't like it, leave..." Gee man.........thanks for clearing this up. Now all the whites who cannot afford to leave must just relax. The African wheel has started turning and no matter what the consequences, it is the African way and therefore the only way.....

A
Feb 04 2008 12:09 Report this comment

Again a racist comment.Whenever is this going to stop and I wonder who is the real racists

Sipho
Feb 04 2008 10:33 Report this comment

The only reason you (white people) are complaining is because you are no longer the advantage. This is the African way things work. If you don't like it, leave...

ANC
Feb 02 2008 12:13 Report this comment

Shareholders within private companies that is involved in Government must not be allowed to participate in any( Eskom) National Tender. If these persons do tender then they are in Government for the wrong reasons.

Nasdaq7
Feb 02 2008 08:50 Report this comment

The only solution as far as I can see, is to have more than one house. A house in SA and in another country. When Mugabe took over Rhodesia, strict exchange controls were immediately instituted. My grandfather fled Zimbabwe and only took a limited amount of cash across the border to South Africa. He and many other people had to leave much of their possessions in Zimbabwe. In the new South Africa, you need to work towards having a house in SA and one elsewhere, with money here and elsewhere, just in case things turn nasty. You must be able to pack your bags and leave at a moments notice. Look at how things deteriorated in Kenia - with just an election. Within weeks, 250,000 people were displaced.

Nasdaq7
Feb 02 2008 08:04 Report this comment

The worst part is that the Scorpions has now been dismantled on demand by those that the Scorpions are investigating on corruption. Our country is going to the dogs. Too bad the poor voting fools are too uneducated and uninformed to vote for a change of political party. De Klerk's greatest mistake was not to privatize every damn business in government's hands. I'm starting to think he was an absolute fool: we went with hats in our hands to the ANC, instead of anti-communist fighters. Communism / socialism / apartheid simply means a big corrupt incompetent government. The ANC could have used taxes in a pure privatized economy to recorrect apartheid: provide financial subsidies to the poor. Now these new government contracts are simply highways to corruption for black cronies.


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