Eskom’s contracts manager Gert Opperman told the inquiry he couldn't go against orders as 'Koko's management style was threatening'.
Former Eskom general manager Johann Bester, left, and contract manager Gert Opperman at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in Parktown, Johannesburg, 11 March 2019. Picture: Refilwe Modise
Zondo’s remark is seen as the strongest ever made on the power utility at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. Opperman recalled: “Tegeta CEO Jacques Roux was the first to call me to request that we dispatch the coal stockpile from Brakfontein to the Majuba power station. Opperman, who described Koko’s call to him as “unusual, given the fact that he was four levels above me”, shared his displeasure with Ncube who told him “to honour the request”.
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