New consortium scores big in South Africa’s floating power station deal
7 May 2021
Powergroup SA a consortium comprising four companies, which is in partnership with Turkish Karadeniz Energy Group was registered with Companies and Intellectual Property Commission only on 15 May last year.
The South African consortium holding a 49% share of the controversial 20-year Karpowership SA floating power station deal announced in March by Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe was formed less than a year ago.
Powergroup SA a consortium comprising four companies, which is in partnership with Turkish Karadeniz Energy Group was registered with Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) only on 15 May last year.
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A massive battle between the country’s top police officers is boiling over. In the midst of this, cops are trying to tackle crime, some of which is furthered by their own colleagues, leaving ordinary people exceptionally vulnerable.
Crime Intelligence officers are critical: they are meant to form an impenetrable barrier between the law-abiding residents of South Africa and local and global crooks.
But what happens if these officers abuse their positions and, instead of seeing to it that criminals are caught, join their ranks?
Well, suspicions and accusations in this realm are playing out. Yet again.
South Africa’s Crime Intelligence head, Peter Jacobs, has been suspended – according to him unfairly – for roughly three months. His suspension may be lifted on Wednesday.
For almost three months SAPS Crime Intelligence (CI) head Peter Jacobs attempted to challenge a notice that he – along with five senior colleagues – was being suspended for suspected personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud from the Secret Service Account. Jacobs was handed a suspension notice on 30 November 2020.
The CI head wrote lengthy communications to national police commissioner Khehla Sitole challenging the decision and setting out that he was being targeted as a result of his clean-up of the unholy mess at Crime Intelligence and because he was investigating senior officers.
“Credible evidence was available that the Account was looted by a number of CFOs and or Divisional Commissioners and other Senior Crime Intelligence Officers,” said Jacobs in a 42-page searing document contextualising what he found in the division when he took the helm in March 2018.
SAPS Crime Intelligence head, Lieutenant General Peter Jacobs and five fellow officers from the division are seeking an urgent intervention from the Pretoria High Court to declare their suspensions by National Commissioner Khehla Sitole unlawful.
Jacobs was the first to be served with a notice of suspension on 30 November, while fellow officers were notified on 10 December 2020.
“Credible evidence was available that the Account was looted by a number of CFOs and or Divisional Commissioners and other Senior Crime Intelligence Officers,” said Jacobs in his 42-page searing document, setting out what he found in the division when he took the helm in March 2018.