Kusile was meant to be finished in 2014 with a budget of R81bn, but so far only four of the six planned units have achieved commercial operation, with R152bn already spent. Kusile was meant to be finished in 2014 with a budget of R81bn, but so far only four of the six planned units have achieve.
Two former employees of engineering firm Asea Brown Boveri have been arrested, along with their wives, in connection with an allegedly inflated multimillion-rand contract for work at Eskom's Kusile power station.
The suspects are two men who worked for Swiss engineering firm ABB and allegedly ensured lucrative deals were handed to a company in which former Eskom chief executive Matshela Koko’s stepdaughter held a stake
Matshela Koko has come out all guns blazing on Sunday, after he objected to an article published by the
Sunday Times. In a display of sheer contempt for the claims made in Graeme Hosken’s investigative piece, the former Eskom CEO branded the journalist as ‘a pig’ and ‘scum’. But what’s got the engineer so hot under the collar?
Former Eskom supremo accused of ‘nepotism’
Some of the accusations against Matshela Koko are related to the ABB company. It’s said that they enjoyed a cosy relationship with Eskom, and Hosken states that this led to ‘subcontracting issue’ that dips its toes in nepotistic waters.