partinform
| by Howard Keeg
Partinform
Lights up
Ellisras
The guys who oil the wheels of the
gravy train ………….
➲ Marius Barnard
and Rhode Barnard
from Aveng
Grinaker LTA
View Partinform video on
www.abrbuzz.co.za
It was with a sense of irony
➲ William Hockly
that I took notice of the
and
Chirsham Thomas
from Masshire
generators starting up at the
Mogol Club in Ellisras, on a
relatively warm evening on
18th June 2014. Or should
that be Lephalale, the name
by which Ellisras now goes?
Originally named as Ellisras
after the original farm owners,
Patrick Ellis and Piet Erasmus,
the town was renamed as
Lephalale by the provincial
government of Limpopo
in 2002.
T
he generators had come on
because of a dodgy power
supply, and as the Partinform
trade show was about to begin
power was needed for the function
to continue as planned, and for its
purpose to be fulfilled. My sense of
irony came about from the fact that
Lephalale is the site for the Medupi
Power Station, a new dry-cooled
coal-fired power station being built by
Eskom. Medupi is a Sepedi word for
“the rain that soaks parched lands”,
but with the considerable delays in
commissioning this power station and
the numerous rumours of financial
impropriety I think that Medupi
actually means “the place of many
backhanders”.
➲ Chris van der Westhuizen and Brent van der Linde
from Exxaro
➲ You have the right
to repair!
➲ The Partinform ladies
| words in action
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july 2014