The ANC secretary-general wants Andre de Ruyter to prove that the governing party is benefiting from Eskom’s corruption, claiming that De Ruyter had tarnished the party’s image.
JOHANNESBURG - African National Congress sectary-general Fikile Mbalula has called former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter’s claims of systematic corruption and political interference within the struggling power utility as baseless.
The ANC secretary-general wants De Ruyter to prove that the governing party is benefiting from Eskom’s corruption, claiming that De Ruyter had tarnished the party’s image."Do not mask difficulties because you failed to deal with load shedding in the country. Now that he has failed and he has chosen to depart, we welcome the immediate departure as the ANC of Mr De Ruyter from Eskom."
Meanwhile, ActionSA's Lerato Ngobeni has condemned what she called Mbalula’s attack on De Ruyter, adding that the ANC had consistently ignored reports of mismanagement and fraud. "There is no conversation that we had on the board where he raised that matter as a formal concern. It never was addressed. In any event, to the extent that he knows the name of that individual, he was duty-bound to walk to the nearest police station and report that matter if he felt he did not enjoy confidence in the existing platforms he's got access to, which deliver on that."
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