{"id":96005,"date":"2017-07-04T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T08:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/johannesburg-high-courts-decision-to-set-aside-tall-trains-tender-welcomed\/"},"modified":"2017-07-04T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T08:34:53","slug":"johannesburg-high-courts-decision-to-set-aside-tall-trains-tender-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/johannesburg-high-courts-decision-to-set-aside-tall-trains-tender-welcomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Johannesburg High Court\u2019s decision to set aside \u2018tall trains\u2019 tender welcomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/johannesburg-high-courts-decision-to-set-aside-tall-trains-tender-welcomed\/\">Johannesburg High Court\u2019s decision to set aside \u2018tall trains\u2019 tender welcomed<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>Dear Editor<\/p>\n<p>The DA welcomes the judgment by the Johannesburg High Court to set aside the controversial Swifambo Rail Leasing contract.<\/p>\n<p>Swifambo, which had no previous experience in the rail industry when it won the tender in March 2013, was contracted to supply 70 new locomotives to Prasa at a cost of R3.5 billion. The company received an initial payment of R460 million and supplied 13 locomotives but they were too tall and thus unsuitable for South Africa\u2019s railways.<\/p>\n<p>It was also alleged that the ANC were beneficiaries of an R80 million bribe aimed at securing the deal for Swifambo, with payments made to Zuma-aligned Maria de Cruz Gomes for business unrelated to Prasa\u2019s operations. The DA has already previously laid charges in this regard in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The judgment states that \u201charm will be done to the administration of justice\u201d and \u201ccorruption will triumph\u201d if the court did not set aside the tender.<\/p>\n<p>This is an indictment on Prasa and exposes how flawed the procurement procedures of Prasa and many other state-owned entities (SOEs) are.<\/p>\n<p>The judgment is thus welcomed as it reaffirms the strength of the country\u2019s judiciary and gives us hope that more SOEs can be rescued from State Capture, corrupt ANC officials and unscrupulous \u201cbusinesspeople\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manny de Freitas MP<\/strong><br \/> <em>DA Shadow Minister of Transport<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/johannesburg-high-courts-decision-to-set-aside-tall-trains-tender-welcomed\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg High Court\u2019s decision to set aside \u2018tall trains\u2019 tender welcomed: Dear Editor The DA welcomes the judgment by the Johannesburg High Court to set aside the controversial Swifambo Rail Leasing contract. Swifambo, which had no previous experience in the rail industry when it won the tender in March 2013, was contracted to supply 70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[9419,6472,4663,3824,3980,11352,7949,2012,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-96005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-aside","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-decision","10":"tag-high","11":"tag-johannesburg","12":"tag-tall","13":"tag-tender","14":"tag-trains","15":"tag-welcomed","16":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}