ANC investment firm Chancellor House used its political connections and friends inside Eskom at the urging of Hitachi executives to influence the outcome of a R38bn boiler tender for Medupi & Kusile power stations, according to never-before-seen documents.
A coal mill at Kusile Power Station's Unit 2 that was supplied by Hitachi as part of a R38 billion deal for boilers at Kusile and Medupi.During a mysterious meeting at OR Tambo Airport in September 2007 an executive of global engineering firm Hitachi urged the chairperson of the ANC’s investment firm Chancellor House to help sway Eskom away from its plans to award two major contracts to its rival bidder, French company Alstom.
The discussion between Chancellor House chairman Professor Taole Mokoena and Klaus-Dieter Rennert, then a senior executive at Hitachi Power Europe, was brief, according to internal Hitachi emails obtained by News24. Rennert made it clear that Hitachi wanted the contract. Rennert asked Mokoena to speak with his"connections" at Eskom and in politics to warn them of the risk of appointing a single supplier to construct both the boilers and turbines at Medupi Power Station. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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