http://www.fin24.com/Companies/Eskom-executive-pay-up-25-20100702

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page292523?oid=485770&sn=2009+Detail&pid=287226

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Fury over sale of electricity to mining firms at low rates

ENERGY Minister Dipuo Peters has overturned months of stonewalling by Eskom to confirm that South Africa sells power to mining giant BHP Billiton in Mozambique at half the cost of production.

Peters confirmed for the first time in a written response to a Parliamentary question that the company paid an average of 12,3 cents per kilowatt hour for Eskom power supplied to its Mozal aluminium smelter in the year to March.

She said Anglo American also paid well below the production cost of 24,3 cents per kilowatt hour.

This contract, which was signed in 1997 with an end-date of 2025, is being renegotiated, but officials have declined to indicate what the new pricing levels might be.

Ina Wilken from the National Consumer Forum said: “This is outrageous. Consumers in South Africa don’t even have enough money to put food on the table but they still have to pay 41 cents per kilowatt hour. It is totally irrational and I am outraged.”

Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said: “This confirms everything we have feared. It is unfairness, where the poorest pay the most,” while Pieter van Dalen, the DA’s spokesperson on public enterprises – who exposed the low rates in a document in April – said: “I am disgusted, to say the least. ”

Renegotiations of the contracts were meant to be finalised by tomorrow, however, Eskom could not be reached for a comment.

In another Parliamentary question posed earlier this month, Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan said: “The final pricing agreements have been signed with the referred-to companies and negotiations are ongoing to clarify certain details. The aluminium sector has been prioritised.”

IFP MP Peter Smith, who put the question to Peters, said: “At the very least, the new prices must cover the full cost to Eskom of producing the power.”

Van Dalen said he believes the negotiations will involve only two out of BHP Billiton’s three aluminium smelters, and that the contract with Motraco – the Mozambique company that carries the power supply to BHP’s Mozal smelter – “will not be re- negotiated. We are stuck with it, it is a fixed contract.”

http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/article467619.ece/Who-are-the-baby-killers

http://za.mg.co.za/article/2010-05-21-a-bridge-across-the-wealth-gap

Voters have more confidence in a convicted rapist than the ANC’s candidate.

“Donson, who was fired by local government MEC Anton Bredell last month for breaching the code of conduct for municipal councillors, beat the ANC’s Jakobus Adams, the National Peoples Party’s R Rademeyer and an independent candidate, PJ Roodtman, in a turnout of 48,74 percent of registered voters.

“Donson was convicted of indecent assault and statutory rape in 2008.”

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100225123605290C119803

I wonder why!

Hey Sne wherever you are, what do you make of these three articles?
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ANC calls for calm after violent protests

2010/02/24

THE ANC yesterday condemned violent service delivery protests that left two people, including a metro police officer, injured in Orange Farm and Sharpeville.

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=382797
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MPs blast BCM over infighting

2010/02/24

A PARLIAMENTARY committee delegation yesterday sharply criticised Buffalo City Municipality for political in-fighting that has crippled service delivery in the city.

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=382802
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ANC bigwigs force rejection of audit report

2010/02/24

ANC heavyweights – both provincial and from the OR Tambo region – forced councillors in King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality to reject a damning internal audit report which implicated municipal manager Monde Tom.

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=382796
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“Instead of electing leaders who will help us to put us back on the road to success, we allow group of stupid, arrogant and greedy people who are guided by ‘this is our time to get rich’ attitude to lead us.”

“what we are doing as a country is to suspend our priorities as a country and citizens in favour of their looting and destruction of our country and its future”

If anything illustrated the truth in that it’s this :

“Proudly (NOT) South African

“A senior ANC member of parliament is the central figure in a scandal involving a Chinese sweatshop making merchandise of Zakumi, the 2010 soccer World Cup’s official mascot.”

http://www.timeslive.co.za/business/article283738.ece

Here is a litmus-test of JZ, the leader: Who here thinks Mbalula and Malema would have behaved the way they do if Mandela was still president?

Could someone explain to me what ‘Hlonipha’ really means? Your woman walks behind you? Or a leader is supposed to be worthy of respect?

For instance, who within the ANC top brass does not know what JZ is/or is not capable of that they needed the danona political expertise of the (zimbabwe like war veteran) children like the imbecile malema and mbalula, greedy vavi, blade and mantashe that JZ is actually good to be the president of the ANC and the country? Before the shaik scandal blew the roof top, who among them doesn’t know how often Mandela and other ANC top brass told him to stay away from shaik but (because of his ill-discipline as a cadre of the ANC) continued until he was found to be corruptly related to shaik? Regarding the rape scandal, what kind of the former head of ANC intelligence could have fallen so easy to Kwezi’s trap if at all it was a mbeki set up as it is alleged and believed by zillion of brainwashed South Africans that even the fact that the girl was his former friend’s daughter who calls him malume could not stop him from committing such a despicable act for a leader and father like him? After his apology for the Kwezi issue, here is now doing exactly what he said he was sorry of and promised not to do it again. What do all these say about this man as our president in relation to whether or not we can trust to help us correct the mistakes of the past as well as to catch the missed opportunities? It is clear that this is not the man to help us achieve that. It is also clear that the current ANC cabal led by malema, mbalula, vavi, blade and mantashe and not forgetting the greedy phosa and prostituting tokyo is certainly not the one to help us achieve the above. But what we are doing as a country is to suspend our priorities as a country and citizens in favour of their looting and destruction of our country and its future simple because ‘we have been told by the above named imbeciles and greedy cabal to hate mbeki and love Jacob Zuma at all costs for neither objective nor substantive tenable reasons or special good work he might have done in the past; and all these without applying our own minds`.

These are some of the things that frustrate me Gwebs – another lost opportunity in our lifetime without any resistance.