EDITORIAL: Gordhan faces critical Scopa questions on De Ruyter’s Eskom claims

This week parliament’s standing committee on public accounts will continue to delve into allegations by former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter about high-level political involvement in crime, sabotage and corruption at the state-owned power utility.It has been a frustrating process for legislators and South Africans following the proceedings up to now.

During last week’s sitting with the SA Police Service, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation and the Special Investigating Unit it was revealed that the national police commissioner, Gen Fannie Masemola, knew about the privately funded investigation into corruption at Eskom initiated by De Ruyter, but it appeared he did not show much interest in learning what that investigation yielded.

“The collapse of Eskom at the hands of syndicates is a major cause of load-shedding. If your interventions were working, we would be seeing some sense of reduction in criminal activity,” he said. The committee members want to know how much government and law enforcement authorities knew about the wide-ranging crime and corruption that was contributing to Eskom’s financial troubles and poor operational performance.

Gordhan will probably also face questions about De Ruyter’s claims that criminal cartels active in Eskom’s coal-supply chain have connections with high-ranking politicians. This is an allegation that De Ruyter repeated in his book —In the book, Sunday Times reports, De Ruyter writes that he told Gordhan and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s national security adviser Sydney Mufamadi the names of two top politicians implicated in the sabotage.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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