PHUTI MOSOMANE
FORMER Eskom Board Chairperson Professor Malegapuru Makgoba revealed at a Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) meeting on Wednesday that Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan allegedly instructed former CEO Andre de Ruyter to establish an intelligence unit at the embattled power utility.
Makgoba, who was attending the meeting alongside current Eskom board chairperson Mpho Makwana, confirmed that the unit was privately funded and set up in response to crime and sabotage incidents at Eskom.
SCOPA Chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa then asked Makgoba whether he was aware of the intelligence-gathering unit funded privately.
Makgoba responded: “Yes. I was informed and the Minister of Public Enterprises brought this matter because of the crime and sabotage taking place at Eskom. Because of the word that Eskom was besieged.”
“He said to de Ruyter, you have to gather the intelligence somehow, he didn’t say it must be done in a manner that
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