Stand on the rooftops of any of the big corporates – Alexander Forbes, EY, Werksmans – and you can see it: three hectares of prime land, hijacked from the city…
In 2008 the City of Joburg agreed to sell the land above the Sandton Gautrain station to a politically-connected developer for R280m.
But the Regiments Kgoro Consortium, never paid the purchase price, the development never happened, and the project went into liquidation.
The land – described as “arguably the most important single piece of undeveloped real estate in South Africa” – is now out of the city’s hands and is destined to be sold by the liquidator.
Our investigation into government's controversial emergency power tender, to plug the hole in Eskom’s electricity supply, has exposed several red flags linked to the tender process and to the preferred bidder #KarpowershipSA - a subsidiary of the Turkish Karadeniz Group.
Among the issues exposed by @amaBhungane include allegations 'that nonsensical rules of the emergency power programme would force bidders to burn fossil fuels and result in consumers paying more than they need to for electricity' amabhungane.org/stories/210514…
Further concerns, as exposed by @amaBhungane this weekend, are allegations of bribery and corruption the Turkish company is facing abroad and the potential impact of these on the outcome of South Africa’s tender amabhungane.org/stories/210619…