The kitchen keeps getting hotter for public enterprises minister Lynne Brown. Every time she takes a burning pot off the stove another scandal comes to the boil. First there was Trillian. In December last year Brown told parliament Eskom had not paid a cent to the financial advisory company that was majority-owned by Gupta lieutenant Salim Essa at the time. Last month Eskom admitted this was a lie. It had paid Trillian R495m. In this case Brown seems to have been misled by Eskom, whose admission came only after Brown overhauled Eskom’s board and appointed Johnny Dladla as acting CEO. Eskom sources say Dladla wants to get to the bottom of questionable payments worth billions. Pressure from the banks for Eskom to tackle corruption or face a R94bn loans recall must be helping to concentrate his mind. Last week parliament said its inquiry into Eskom, due to start this month, would expand to include two more state entities that report to Brown’s department, Transnet and Denel. She is lik...
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