Parliament’s public enterprises committee would leave no stone unturned in getting to the bottom of allegations of corruption at Eskom, committee chairwoman Zukiswa Rantho pledged on Tuesday.
The committee is due to hold an inquiry into the stream of allegations against Eskom executives and is to secure the services of Parliament’s legal advisors and researchers to assist it in the complex task.
The inquiry is expected to begin next month and, in the meantime, the committee will be collecting as much information as possible. Parliament has also been asked to avail the services of an advocate to work as evidence leader for the inquiry, examining all relevant documents and to assess the relevance of potential witnesses.
Both former and present Eskom executives, and possibly members of the Gupta family, could be called to give evidence.
Rantho introduced Tuesday’s meeting, which heard presentations from the South African Council of Churches, the Public Research Institute and Outa, all of which have conducted research into state capture. She said the committee would work all hours and days to get to the bottom of the allegations.
She promised that the inquiry would be extensive and thorough, adding that more information was coming out about Eskom that "causes us to raise our eyebrows more and more. We need to do this to save our country and to make sure that our government is accountable to this committee", and that the committee would show it was fulfilling its mandate to hold government to account.
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