Eskom acting CE admits to nepotism warning
But Sean Maritz has denied deleting incriminating information from the utility’s server to help get his boss and friend, Matshela Koko, off the hook
Sean Maritz, Eskom’s latest acting CE, acknowledged on Thursday that he had received a written warning on a nepotism charge seven years ago. But he has denied deleting incriminating information from the utility’s server to help get his boss and friend, Matshela Koko, off the hook, saying Eskom’s information technology system “was built in such a way that no e-mail could be deleted”. Maritz said he “acknowledged the oversight” of hiring his friend and fellow churchgoer without declaring their friendship. For this he was slapped with a written warning in 2010. Maritz denied the fixed contract for Koko had been irregular. He said the awarding of the contract had been adjudicated by a panel, as part of Eskom’s internal processes. The Sunday Times reported that Maritz had been disciplined for hiring a friend and fellow churchgoer on a R100,000-a-month contract in 2010, without declaring their friendship and in contravention of Eskom’s policy on declaring conflict of interest. The newspap...
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