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The hidden equipment is retrieved from where it was concealed and placed back into storage as if the new equipment had been delivered.

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Once it became clear that it was now open season, many employees, ably abetted by contractors and suppliers, gorged themselves. On 11 April 2016, the Eskom board approved a further payment of R659 million, this time to Tegeta, purportedly for the supply of coal to Eskom’s Arnot power station. In terms of interference, the former CEO reportedly pointed to a strained relationship with the new board, which tried to usurp operation powers from the executive team and sidelined them frequently. On 29 November Gwede Mantashe bizarrely accused me of behaving ‘like a policeman’ who ‘must chase the criminals’ instead of fixing the utility. The cookie is used by cdn services like CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis.

He does not understand that avoiding eye contact with a senior person is a mark of respect in many African cultures. After more than a hundred days in office, the chairman of the board still hadn’t spoken to him or asked him for his views on operational matters – a galling display of disrespect. Of course, with its customary alacrity, SCOPA jumped on the bandwagon and expressed its alarm that unvetted executives were in charge of Eskom.

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When reading through the minutes of the board meeting that allowed all of this to happen, I was struck by the sheer sense of normality that had been created, as if these egregious acts were entirely within the normal course of Eskom’s business. After all, the SSA was one of the state entities which regularly used listening devices identical to the one found in my car.But how does one obtain that sort of evidence when the government and the police and intelligence services seem to lack the will to investigate? May 16, 2023

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Although I am not privy to the exact financial details, I’ve surmised that the total cost of the investigation ran to approximately R3-million per month. With the chain of command being bypassed, I was having to handle increasing frustrations from exco members, even as I myself was bypassed and excluded. Any copying or distribution of a pirated ebook, or any forwarding of a link to the pirated ebook, is unlawful. Security officials addressing Scopa over the past few weeks have homed in on De Ruyter’s R50 million private “intelligence gathering” operation, questioning its legality and giving different accounts of how aware they were that it existed.