Eskom board members failed to log on, sending a text message to say they were tied up, and parliamentary staff forgot to invite Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.The meeting was convened to, among other things, discuss two legal reports – one of which dealt with the conduct of chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer, and the other with a multibillion-rand fuel oil supply contract. Oberholzer, Eskom CEO André de Ruyter and several other executives did attend.
“You had chaos from the board side, which made it a farce,” said Alfred Lees, a member of the standing committee on public accounts for the DA.The need for urgency is self evident. Eskom is mired in corruption allegations, has debt of about R450 billion and is struggling to supply the country with sufficient power.
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