EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: CV checking is just one of the services the Guptas offer
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Once Eskom’s Gupta-aligned executives and directors had completed pressuring Glencore into selling Optimum mine to the brothers, the power utility’s R2bn claim for substandard coal was slashed by 90%. The shambles in the government’s once internationally acclaimed independent power producer programme has resulted in the fourth round’s winning bidders, which committed R58bn to 37 projects, being weeks away from collapse, after paying hefty prepayments amounting to millions of rand to Eskom. In My Opinion Matters of debate It is payback time for the Gupta brothers’ cowardly use of spies and twitter trolls. "The fact that their investigators are incompetent is neither here nor there," writes Peter Bruce. When President Jacob Zuma suddenly replaced mineral resources minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi with a little known parliamentary backbencher from the Free State in October 2015, it did not elicit much response in the market. We now know from the l...
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