{"id":4580,"date":"2017-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/amabhungane\/stories\/read-the-eskom-report\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:00:00","slug":"read-the-eskom-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/read-the-eskom-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Eskom report"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2015, with Eskom once again in crisis, the board hired international law firm Dentons to conduct an investigation into major issues at the power utility.<\/p>\n

Load shedding, financial challenges, the high cost of primary energy, and delays at Medupi and Kusile were all under investigation.<\/p>\n

The investigation was supposed to last 12 months, but after barely two months Eskom’s board pulled the plug, claiming Dentons had given enough to start implementing the necessary changes.<\/p>\n

The report, which cost Eskom R20-million, was then locked in a safe.<\/p>\n

In 2015, The amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism asked for a copy of the report under a Promotion of Access to Information. Eskom refused.<\/p>\n

Then, last week, Eskom did an about-turn, saying it would release a redacted version.<\/p>\n

Speculation is rife that Eskom decided on the release only after realising that the Financial Mail<\/em> was in possession<\/a> of far more scathing draft versions of the report.<\/p>\n

But even Eskom’s sanitised version contains damning evidence of mismanagement, corruption and incompetence.
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