The Trillian fiasco at Eskom has been dragging on for months, yet it should take a junior auditor no more than two hours to ascertain the salient facts. These include: Was there a valid contract between Eskom and Trillian? If not, did the McKinsey-Eskom contract write in Trillian as a subcontractor, and who was responsible for managing the Trillian-Eskom relationship? Was there a valid purchase order defining Trillian’s deliverables? If not, who prepared and authorised payment to Trillian? What supporting documents accompanied the payment request? Who certified that Trillian had performed work as defined in the contract/work order to the satisfaction of Eskom? If none of the above normal governance procedures was complied with, who authorised the deviation, and who instructed that person to deviate? Again, if all the governance and procedural requirements were flouted at Eskom, why pay Trillian R600m? Apart from Trillian, who else benefited from this graft and how? Certainly a five-...
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