Eskom's R3.7 billion contract with Gupta company was 'a cut and paste job'
The PWC report into the Eskom-Tegeta deal states that the contract had been poorly formatted‚ contained irrelevant information and ambiguities and that it appeared to have been "hastily" drafted
11 May 2017 - 08:12
The multi-billion Rand coal supply contract between Eskom and Gupta-owned firm Tegeta was "hastily put together by copying and pasting sections from other contracts". This was revealed in Parliament on Wednesday by senior officials from the National Treasury's Chief Procurement Office during their meeting with the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA).
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