Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan will appear before the parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday to give evidence on alleged corruption at Eskom.
According to De Ruyter, he told Gordhan about the corruption allegation at Eskom during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We sat there with our masks on, as we knew the minister was not in good health and had reason to be concerned about Covid-19. Even with a cold front, the windows were open to get fresh air filtering through,” De Ruyter“I told Gordhan there was more than one mafia-type network still active inside Eskom. At one stage, no fewer than five of the 16 power station managers had allegedly been compromised.
De Ruyter claimed he told Gordhan there was a bureaucrat in the Treasury who had supplied false information in a letter Treasury director-general Dondo Mogajane had signed. The letter concerned the appointment of a contractor to install coal-unloading equipment at the Majuba power plant’s railway line, he said.
“The Treasury official had alleged that the contractor was blacklisted by the auditor-general, but when we contacted the AG’s office, they made it clear that they had done no such thing. I informed Mogajane, who was very apologetic but took no action against the official.”“I duly supplied a name,” said De Ruyter.
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