Included among the many scenarios for SA’s future energy mix proposed in the draft integrated resources plan 2023 is a delay in decommissioning coal-fired power stations.
Coal-smuggling syndicates whose modus operandi includes hijacking deliveries of high-grade coal to Eskom and swapping them with lower-grade product are being targeted by the South Africa Revenue Service for alleged tax crimes amounting to R500m.
The very language of trade negotiations is the language of war. Once concluded, the trade agreements give way, with astonishing cynicism, to the language of double-speak and deception.