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Flash Briefing: Eskom investigates seemingly sabotage; unrelenting Covid-19 soft fraud continues; coalition agreements unclear despite closing date

  • Eskom CEO André de Ruyter says that Eskom is investigating suspicious conditions surrounding the breakdowns of several energy stations. Paraphrasing a precept identified as Hanlon’s Razor, De Ruyter stated he ceaselessly tries to recall gorgeous faith. “My most main level of departure has ceaselessly been to now not attribute to malice what can even be explained by incompetence,” the Eskom chief stated in an on-line briefing. Alternatively, Eskom fair now not too lengthy ago had an incident the place three objects at Matimba energy role went down simultaneously. Asked what the motive of such sabotage would possibly furthermore very neatly be, De Ruyter stated it’s a long way unhealthy to speculate. “We would possibly furthermore quiet steer particular of irresponsible hypothesis [and] would possibly furthermore quiet also steer particular of making an environment of paranoia,” he stated. De Ruyter stated that they had been met with resistance from the syndicates which believe benefited from corruption inner Eskom.
  • Covid-19 soft points continue unabated, as response from authorities remains scarce, and implicated companies live in industry with the manager. SARS has printed a checklist of companies which had been convicted and sentenced for dodging taxes on Covid-19 contracts, but many escaped with a slap on the wrist gorgeous of as puny as R4,000. Just a few companies had been tied to folks who scored tons of of thousands and thousands of rands in contracts for ‘fogging’ and unnecessary sanitisation at Gauteng faculties. While authorities dispute that action is being taken, no disclosure experiences had been printed, and on the face of it, nothing is being done.
  • Lately marks the 14th day after the native election results were declared and serves as the closing date for municipalities to elect or device up dates to elect original management. Councils can convene a meeting and attach apart off it to a later date. Alternatively, despite the looming closing dates, many hung municipalities believe quiet now not reached any coalition agreements, and some main metros love Johannesburg and Tshwane quiet haven’t found any right ground. No topic claims from political events that the residents will be positioned at the forefront of negotiations, most discussions believe degenerated to horse-buying and selling and bickering over political positions and who will get to be in energy.

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