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Turkey’s Karpowership objects to “false
allegations” in SA power tender case
SOUTH AFRICA TURKEY’S Karpowership has been impacted by Department of Mineral Resources and Energy,
a court challenge to a South African government the ministry responsible for the tender, intended
tender for 2,000 megawatts of emergency power to oppose the matter in court, but at this stage
filed by one of the companies that lost out. was not offering further comment.
South Africa’s DNG Power wants the High A Karpowership spokesman told the news
Court to review its disqualification from the agency: “The false allegations levied by a failed
tender and prevent the government from sign- bidder are alarming. ... All bidders followed the
ing and implementing agreements with the same transparent process.”
preferred bidders, court papers seen by Reuters South Africa’s biggest opposition party the
show. The government named the eight pre- Democratic Alliance, meanwhile, has claimed
ferred bidders last month. Karpowership was that the emergency power tender was formu-
a major winner. Three of its floating gas power lated towards selecting Karpowership from the
stations were among the eight projects selected beginning. It has demanded a parliamentary
to assist in ending recurring power outages that investigation.
have cost the South African economy billions of The government said in March that the eight
dollars in lost output. projects selected as preferred bidders would
In an affidavit, DNG Power’s Aldworth Mba- inject 45bn rand ($3.1bn) of investment into the
lati alleged the tender’s outcome was influenced economy. It added that the first power would
by corruption and that some of the preferred bid- flow from August next year. The projects have
ders had been unlawfully granted exemptions. been asked to deliver power for more than 20
Reuters reported that the South African years.
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