The full Dentons report Eskom doesn't want you to see
Financial Mail is publishing the unsanitised version of one of the earliest versions of the Dentons report, as it is fundamental for SA to judge the evidence for itself
Eskom has stymied all requests for the notorious Dentons report for two years. After being misled by SA’s electricity parastatal about the status of the probe, the Financial Mail today publishes the unsanitised version of one of the earliest versions of the Dentons report. Eskom has chosen not to provide this sort of transparency, but we believe it is fundamental for the South African public to judge for itself the evidence detailing the near-meltdown of the electricity parastatal. Two weeks ago, Eskom finally yielded to pressure to release the report — for which it paid more than R20m — but disappointingly, it released a heavily redacted version. The public deserves to know what caused Eskom’s near-collapse at a time when it had run out of money to pay staff, continue operating and build power stations. The fact that Eskom has chosen not to adopt an approach of full transparency only strengthens our conviction that there ought to be a full and transparent judicial commission of inq...
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