EFF in bid to derail Transnet contract
EFF says the contract was inflated by about R17.4bn to benefit the Gupta family and its associates
The EFF is heading for court in a bid to interdict a Transnet contract, which it says was inflated by about R17.4bn to benefit the Gupta family and its associates. EFF leader Julius Malema said the party would attempt to have a locomotive tender allocation overturned pending the outcome of an investigation into its legality. Should it go ahead, the EFF’s interdict will be one of many lodged by opposition parties and nongovernmental organisations against President Jacob Zuma’s government. Some of the locomotives have already been delivered. It was reported in January that the Transnet contract for the locomotives had run into a stumbling block after technical problems related to a key component — its alternators — affected the first units arriving in SA. The EFF said it would write to the Chinese and US governments to disclose the alleged corruption by companies based in those countries involved in the contract: Chinese South Rail, China North Rail and General Electric. The party wou...
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