SMOKING GUN

8th December 2017 By: Darlene Creamer

SMOKING GUN

Against all odds, the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises has done a remarkable job in peeling back the layers of State Capture at the country’s power utility. However, former Eskom chairperson Zola Tsotsi arguably provided the ‘smoking gun’, with testimony linking President Jacob Zuma directly to the capture project. Tsotsi narrated how disgraced former South African Airways chairperson Dudu Myeni, acting as Zuma’s proxy, called him to the Durban Presidential residence in March 2015 to outline the suspension of Eskom executives, which took place only days later.