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December 15, 2015

SAfrican court sets aside awarding of nuclear tender to French company
Cape Town (XNA) Dec 15, 2015
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Thursday set aside the awarding of a four-billion-rand (about 266 million U.S. dollars) nuclear tender to a French company. The SCA based its ruling on the fact that the bidding process was procedurally unfair. The decision by state-run electricity utility Eskom to award the tender to Avera, a French multinational group specializing in nuclear and renewable energy, was based on irrelvant criteria, the court said. The SCA found that there was no rati ... read more

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