Scopa to grill SIU, police & Hawks on Eskom corruption claims
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts will test claims of corruption at Eskom when the police, the Hawks and Special Investigating Unit appear before it on Tuesday.
The claims were made by former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter in a television interview earlier this year.
De Ruyter, in an interview with eNCA, expressed doubts about the political will in government to end endemic graft at the power utility.
De Ruyter has said he suffered an attempted poisoning attempt in December, shortly after he tendered his resignation.
He told local media that he drank coffee laced with cyanide. A police investigation is ongoing.
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Africa's most industrialised country has laboured under crippling power shortages as Eskom fails to keep pace with demand and maintain its ageing coal power infrastructure.
De Ruyter also appeared before Scopa last month, but refused to name the politicians who he claimed were allegedly complicit in corruption at the utility.
The former CEO told MPs he had shared this information with the Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and the police.
