SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Gifts that keep on taking
Free to read from Financial Mail's archives. Now you know who to thank for the corruption at Eskom and Transnet. All these stooges were appointed by the stooge-in-chief who now handles the nation’s treasures
First published in August 2017.
On June 23, the day public enterprises minister Lynne Brown appointed the current board of Eskom, law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr and audit outfit Nkonki finalised their forensic investigation into former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko. Handing the report over to Eskom’s newest board, the investigators recommended that Koko face multiple charges, including conflict of interest for failing to report his stepdaughter’s shareholding in a company that provided services to the division he headed when it "won" contracts, and of contravening procurement processes. Koko was one of two repugnant executives left from the Zola Tsotsi/Ben Ngubane era. The other was Anoj Singh, who has been suspended for equally serious stuff. They both enjoyed the hospitality of the Gupta family in Dubai after awarding contracts worth billions to Gupta-controlled companies. Of course, we can’t forget who gifted us all these shady characters: finance minister Malusi Gigaba. When he became public enterprises minis...
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