South African solar panel company ARTsolar claims that 18 foreign firms awarded solar power construction contracts are non-compliant with local content stipulations.
The Durban-based company has filed a court application, alleging extensive non-compliance with the requirements across billions of rands worth of Independent Power Producer Programme contracts.
The Sunday Times reports that the 18 companies were set to produce 1,200MW of energy through three separate tenders issued in 2021 and 2022.
Their bids…
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Australia: You have two cows. Upon further inspection, you realize that one is a koala, the other a kangaroo.
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Van der Merwe is approached by SANRAL one day who want to build a new highway through his donkey farm. Van is really concerned with how his donkeys can get from one side of the farm to the other without having to cross the highway and risk being injured or killed. He is promised that they will build bridges the highway so that his donkeys can cross under the highway. Van agrees and gives them the go-ahead.
The highway is built and a year later the same rep goes to the farm to go see how Van and his donkeys are. He eventually finds Van under one of these bridges chipping away at the roof of the tunnel with a hammer and chisel.
\”Mnr Van de Merwe, what are you doing damaging the highway bridge?\”