Gupta deal 'duck soup'

16 February 2016 - 02:33
By TMG Digital

The DA said that Gupta-owned Tegeta Resources' acquisition of the Optimum coal mine was "looking like duck soup". According to the party's mineral resources spokesman, James Lorimer, what "looks like a duck and quacks like a duck" was Tegeta's purchase of a mine that "Glencore, one of the world's most-admired mining companies could not make viable", and Tegeta securing "coal supply contracts for two Eskom power stations".

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