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Eskom’s Jabu Mabuza set to return to the stand at the Zondo Commission

24 February 2019, 8:01 PM  |
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Jabu Mabuza detailed events that led to the resignation of Board members and the disciplinary of former executives for wrongdoing.

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Jabu Mabuza detailed events that led to the resignation of Board members and the disciplinary of former executives for wrongdoing.

Chairperson of the Eskom Board, Jabu Mabuza, will return to the stand when the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture resumes in Parktown, Johannesburg, on Monday morning.

On Friday, Mabuza detailed events that led to the resignation of Board members and the disciplinary of former executives for wrongdoing.

Mabuza said George Sebolela was asked to resign from the Eskom Board for not declaring his interests in companies that were doing business with the power utility.

A bidder, who was seeking a tender at Eskom, declared Sebolela’s interest when he was asked to disclose any relations with Eskom members.

Mabuza said various law enforcement authorities were looking at different matters.

“To the extent that we could pursue criminal charges, we have done. There are case numbers for that – and we’ve handed that to the various law enforcement agencies – we have not yet taken any civil action, which does not mean that we don’t intend to. We will.”

Mabuza said when the current board was appointed, it had to deal with ethical and liquidity issues as well as the cleaning up of Eskom.

He, however, said there were more challenges.

“The competence or the ability of people in the leadership of Eskom to deal with these operational and technical issues, clearly that’s not the skills they are in doubt with. Knowing what we now know, we need to get people either to augment or replace the current skills set and make space for people that have got the skills that are required, to address issues of a technical nature.”

Energy expert Ted Blom says if Eskom Board Chairperson Mabuza’s perceived conflict of interest had been known prior to his appointment he would not be holding his current position.

Evidence leader with the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, Advocate Vincent Maleka asked Mabuza about the perceived conflict of interest when he appeared before the Commission in Parktown, Johannesburg, on Friday.

Mabuza confirmed owning a stake in Sphere Holdings – an investment holding company whose subsidiary does maintenance work on a third of Eskom boilers.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is now demanding his resignation.

Blom says this a major problem.

“He hurriedly has to throw his assets into a giant trough as he testified. Not only is he involved with coal, he also holds very large interests in companies that do Eskom maintenance. The problem with the coal is on the short-term purchases, which seems to be where his wife and his family are involved, on the one side and the problem with Eskom being in the midst that they are is the operational maintenance problem and seemingly there is an excess between the supplier of those maintenance services and Eskom,” says Blom.

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