Parliament will next week launch an inquiry into the leadership and governance crisis at Eskom, when the public enterprises portfolio committee starts with preparations for the investigation and related matters before calling for submissions from the utility and the Public Enterprises Department. This will be the eighth investigation into governance and operational problems at Eskom in the past 10 years. Principal among them were the 2015 Dentons investigation into the utility’s operational meltdown and the 2012 Special Investigating Unit’s probe into serious maladministration and improper and unlawful conduct by senior officials and board members. All seven probes were abandoned at critical stages, or the reports were never made public, with no discernible action taken against those implicated. While the Eskom board had not received a formal notification of the latest inquiry, it would welcome any investigation into its affairs, spokesman Khulani Qoma said. The parliamentary inquir...
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