Jaap Burger suggested there was resistance to tackling syndicates in a concerted manner
The NEC allegedly suggested that President Cyril Ramaphosa explore giving the electricity minister more powers at Eskom
The minister’s conduct was called into question during this week’s national working committee meeting, sources said
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The minister’s leadership style is marred by micro-management and interference, according to industry leaders
The Naicker family built a multi-billion-rand empire renting water tankers and yellow plant to government. Bitter family feuds and allegations of collusion threaten to bring them crashing down
Andy Mothibi tells MPs the former Eskom CEO could face legal action
Acting chief executive says he still has work to do in his financial role at the utility
Sources say the board will wait until the investigation is completed before making a decision
The board was told to take seriously De Ruyter’s claims about wholesale graft at the embattled parastatal
Business Unity South Africa’s chief executive has accused the organisation’s president of throwing the lobby under the bus in a meeting with the president
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Brigadier Jap Burger is central to the fraud and corruptions claims made by the power utility’s former chief executive
Mpho Makwana says the selection process is being conducted behind closed doors, as is standard practice
The decision came after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security adviser, Sydney Mufamadi, said the former CEO never told him the report implicated a senior ANC politician in corruption at the utility
The parliamentary committee will also call Business Unity South Africa’s head to talk about the intelligence probe the former chief executive initiated
Chapter 15 of the former Eskom boss’s explosive book deals with corruption at Tutuku power station in Mpumalanga
Mpho Makwana has accused the former chief executive of breaching confidentiality clauses in his contract of employment
Instead of meeting engineers, the former Eskom chief executive was busy with his ghostwriters
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The public enterprises minister says the former Eskom board chairperson, Malegapuru Makgoba, misled and misinformed parliament and the public
In all the bickering that we’ve been through over the past five years, from the long-running saga about the competence of former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to this week’s parliamentary hearings into André de Ruyter’s allegations of corruption at Eskom, it feels as if we aren’t making progress in dealing with the structural fault lines in our country
The former Eskom chairperson said a maligned investigation initiated by former CEO Andre de Ruyter was first mooted by the minister
The former Eskom chief executive said he relayed all privately-gathered intelligence to the police and Minister Pravin Gordhan, and so did not breach his reporting duty
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The Hawks and SIU suggested to Scopa that the former Eskom chief lied about reporting fraud and corruption
The Pretoria high court has found that the rolling blackouts infringe on constitutional rights
BLSA on Eskom investigation: ‘We don’t go out of our way to meddle”
The Pretoria high court granted an order, unopposed, to allow it to serve papers abroad in its defamation suit against the former Eskom chief executive
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Party says the move is to vindicate its ‘reputation’ but the timing suggests it’s a pre-emptive strike
The ruling party wants a retraction and apology from the former Eskom CEO for implicating it in crippling corruption at the power utility
Despite pressure from the standing committee on public accounts, the former Eskom boss stood firm, saying he was not willing to divulge identities
The former Eskom chief executive has in a submission to parliament reiterated his statement that cartels, notably in Mpumalanga, are milking the company dry
The former Eskom boss has alleged that two senior ANC leaders are involved in corruption at the mismanaged, looted and sabotaged power utility
The new chief executive is charged with ending load-shedding and unbundling the power utility into three divisions – generation, transmission and distribution
Eskom’s board chair was speaking on a panel about the country’s energy crisis at the South Africa Investment Conference on Thursday