Unrealistic black economic empowerment (BEE demands which some companies oblige suppliers to comply with, could end up preventing previously disadvantaged Individuals (PDI) from benefiting from preferential procurement programmes. This concern has emerged from Eskom’s interim deal with Waterberg Coal, which Read the full story
The public procurement process is so flawed that there are people, mostly politically connected in one way or another, who exploit its loopholes and continue make a fortune from taxpayer’ money. Tenderprenership as such a malpractice is called is a Read the full story
Transform SA Online learns that Eskom has signed a coal supply deal with Anglo American’s black empowerment company Inyosi Coal to have the commodity delivered from the New Largo project to Kusile Power Station. According to the memorandum Read the full story
Linking up with potential suppliers will no longer be a hassle for tender invitation issuers. GetBiz, an e-procurement company that specialises in advertising tenders, has launched a real-time service that tender issuers countrywide can use to upload invitations and applicants Read the full story
Dubious procurement processes have led to the failure of well-intentioned state projects and it is important that the nuclear energy project should be well managed from its inception. The Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa managing director, Knox Msebenzi, said Read the full story
There is no excuse for procurement fraud in the construction sector, but then it is ingenious to pretend that it does not occur. And some of the professional bodies that have acknowledged the existence of bad apples within their Read the full story
As more focus is on HIV/AIDS, there is one area that has been overlooked: In South Africa, asthma is the third most common cause of hospital admissions of children, yet only 2% of asthmatics receive treatment. Hence to to cut Read the full story
It has emerged that one of the areas that the government has to target as part of its cost cutting measures is excessive expenditure on office space rental. Millions of rand in taxpayers’ money has been paid for government leases Read the full story
Directors of private companies that have landed the ‘pot of gold’ that is lucrative government tenders, in their state of jubilation, might overlook critical terms and conditions that could lead them into an unanticipated legal wrangle. Transform SA read this Read the full story
Eskom on Thursday 20 February declared an electricity emergency and asked its industrial customers to reduce their load by 10% as of this afternoon. The power system is severely constrained due to the loss of additional generating units from Eskom’s Read the full story