Former chief justice criticizes Karpowership's shareholders' agreement

Business News

Former chief justice criticizes Karpowership's shareholders' agreement
Chief JusticeKarpowershipShareholders' Agreement
  • 📰 News24
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 18 sec. here
  • 8 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 32%
  • Publisher: 80%

Former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo has criticized Karpowership's Turkish owner over its biased and oppressive shareholders' agreement with its black empowerment partners.

Former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo has delivered a damning arbitration ruling in the fight over Karpowership 's BEE shareholding. Ngcobo described clauses of the shareholder agreement as 'biased', 'oppressive' and 'so unreasonable as to offend the core foundational value of equality'. Former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo has eviscerated Karpowership 's Turkish owner over its 'biased' and 'oppressive' shareholders' agreement with its black empowerment partners .

Powergroup SA turned to arbitration when Turkey's Karadeniz tried to evict it from the R218-billion deal to supply emergency power to Eskom for the next 20 years. In February, Karadeniz told Powergroup that it needed to fund its portions of a $5 million (R93 million) the Turkish parent said was needed to get the Karpowership deal over the line

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

News24 /  🏆 4. in ZA

Chief Justice Karpowership Shareholders' Agreement Biased Oppressive Black Empowerment Partners

South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Karpowership gets the green light to continue LNG-to-power project in KZNKarpowership gets the green light to continue LNG-to-power project in KZNKarpowership gets the green light to continue LNG-to-power project in KZN
Read more »

Karpowership leaves another African capital in darkness due to unpaid billKarpowership leaves another African capital in darkness due to unpaid billKarpowership leaves another African capital in darkness due to unpaid bill
Read more »

Turkish company Karpowership restores electricity to Guinea-Bissau capitalTurkish company Karpowership restores electricity to Guinea-Bissau capitalTurkish firm Karpowership puts the lights back on after the government partially settles a $15m debt.
Read more »

Karpowership secures environmental approval for Richards Bay plantKarpowership secures environmental approval for Richards Bay plantJUST IN | Karpowership secures environmental approval for Richards Bay plant
Read more »



Render Time: 2025-02-19 11:47:27