PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
Academics produce guide to unravelling Eskom’s dirty web
The key task of the parliamentary inquiry into state capture is to expose the way in which senior appointments and directives have been subsumed by a political project that serves a corrupt elite, academics from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business have said. A reference book on corruption at Eskom, The Eskom Inquiry Reference Book, was authored by Prof Anton Eberhard and Catrina Godinho as part of the state capacity research project. The research project was manned by a group of academics from research institutions at the universities of Stellenbosch, Witwatersrand, Cape Town and Johannesburg. It was produced as an aid to the parliamentary inquiry into state capture, which is being undertaken by the public enterprises portfolio committee. The inquiry is due to kick off later in September. The book was presented at a panel discussion on Tuesday night, which was addressed by Eberhard and former finance minister Pravin Gordhan. The authors propose questions that ...
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