It s understood the driver would offload the oil at an unknown location and arrive at the power station with an empty tanker. The shift supervisor would then fraudulently register and print weighbridge slips as if the oil was offloaded.
Board member Claudelle von Eck told the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), which is sitting at Eskom’s headquarters at Megawatt Park, that what De Ruyter had shared with them had been scant .
Sello Mametja has confirmed testimony from Eskom’s former CEO, Andre de Ruyter, that Mametja’s life was under threat as he sought to clean up corruption and sabotage at the Mpumalanga station.
Eskom’s legal head Mel Govender said that she did not believe former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter did anything wrong by commissioning a covert, off-the-books investigation into corruption at the power utility.