SOUTH Africa's Public Protector, an independent,
state-appointed anti-corruption organisation, is investigating a railway
contract signed last year by the state-owned logistics group Transnet with
China's Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Company.
Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive is a subsidiary of the
state-owned CSR Corporation Ltd, the largest manufacturer of electric
locomotives in China.
The deal, involving the purchase of 95 electric
locomotives, is part of a ZAR300 billion (US$32.5 billion) upgrade to eliminate
bottlenecks on Transnet railways and ports, Reuters reports.
But the Marxist party, the Workers International
Vanguard, claims the Chinese locomotives are similar to those sold in
neighbouring Namibia in 2005, and were found to be of such poor quality they
had to be withdrawn from service.
Said party secretary Shaheed Mahomed: "Transnet
management must have been well aware of this history. This raises the question
as to how did it come about that the tender was still awarded to them."
Source : HKSG.
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