EATING AN ELEPHANT

11th August 2017 By: Darlene Creamer

EATING AN ELEPHANT

The #GuptaLeaks emails have provided incredible insight into just how ambitious the Gupta family and its surrogates were in their efforts to secure mind-bogglingly large revenue steams from South Africa’s State-owned companies (SoCs). In the absence of a commission of inquiry, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises has given itself the enormous task of trying to eat the State-capture elephant at Eskom one mouthful at a time. Hopefully, its eyes are not bigger than its stomach, both in defining the scope of the Eskom probe and before adding further SoC investigations to the menu.