Mpho had none of this dedication to efficiency: he would sit on letters and documents for months, both incoming and outgoing. Just days after its release, a PDF copy of André de Ruyter's tell-all memoir is being shared on WhatsApp. During this dark chapter in our nation’s history, political interference and widespread corruption in state-owned enterprises was the norm. As someone who worked at the highest levels of the state but is not beholden to the ruling party, he is uniquely placed to speak truth to power. The vehicles, always held in the name of the dealership, would be available on demand, should the actual owner wish to take his Lamborghini for a spin on the potholed roads of Mpumalanga.

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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.Knowing that ground zero for corruption in Eskom lay in the heart of the coal value chain in Mpumalanga, which is overseen by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in its role as mining regulator, made Mantashe’s next move all the more galling. Having a formal performance review was a rather unusual exercise at the level of CEO, although HR policies required these processes. In the governance vacuum created by the Zuma years, the floodgates were open to all and sundry to get their moment at the trough, with the Guptas only being the most prominent looters. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.

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These data are then used to segment audiences based on the geographical location, demographic, and user interest provide relevant content and for advertisers for targeted advertising.He also said that mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe was ‘territorial’ over the political sphere and that Gorhan was competent but hampered by loyalty to the ANC. But this was the minister of energy himself, effectively accusing Eskom management, and by implication me, of high treason. This procurement process is repeated at various power stations and amounts to millions of rands of fraudulent transactions per month per power station. After holding executive positions at Sasol and heading up Nampak, he served as Eskom CEO from January 2020 to February 2023. As happens when a farmer tries to trap jackal, the ever-tightening anti-corruption net had merely resulted in ever-smarter criminals, skilled in evading detection.

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It is a story of corruption, red tape, destructive policies, a don’t-care attitude, slack management, arrogance, inexperience, incompetence, political interference, and intrigue, elevated here and there with outbreaks of courage and excellence by staff members struggling to survive in Eskom’s toxic atmosphere. We will take legal action against individuals who are circulating pirated copies, which may include criminal complaints once we have collected all the necessary information.

Hopefully the bombshells will be landing right before next years election, so that the politicians will be trying to cover their asses instead of politicking. After reading de Ruyter’s book and watching events unfold since his departure, my opinion is that at least some of the deliberate sabotage was a reaction to his management style. The only possible reason to my mind was that the intelligence services were discomfited by what I had been uncovering in Mpumalanga. President Cyril Ramaphosa put the amount at R500 billion but testified before the Zondo Commission that the full cost may never be known. Saliem Fakir, an experienced academic and environmentalist, penned an influential piece in 2017 that distinguishes between political entrepreneurship and productive entrepreneurship.

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Together with its state-owned sisters like Transnet and South African Airways, Eskom bled a veritable ocean of money into the coffers of the state capture brigade. za/article/2023-05-16-andre-de-ruyters-truth-to-power-the-bombshell-information-uncovered-by-private-intelligence/">article first appeared on

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