Eskom has refused to name the contractor that got a R5 billion overpayment from the cash-strapped national power utility in a transaction that Parliament’s standing committee on appropriations described as too astronomical to just be explained away as an accounting error.
Power utility remains mum on company, while touting only three days of load shedding in winter.
Eskom has refused to name the contractor that got a R5 billion overpayment from the cash-strapped national power utility in a transaction that Parliament’s standing committee on appropriations described as too astronomical to just be explained away as an accounting error.
Eskom said on Thursday that it had not yet taken measures to recover the R5 billion.
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