South Africa is set to tackle “mafia” groups that have compromised power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.’s operations and contributed to nationwide blackouts, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said.
The state-owned company has called for more arrests to apprehend people suspected of corruption involving the state-owned company.
“You’ll begin to see more and more visibly push back in this particular regard from the various authorities,” Gordhan said in an interview at Bloomberg’s Johannesburg office. That’s resulted in Eskom receiving sub-standard loads of the fuel, including pieces of metal and rubble that damage its plants, he said.
And probes are underway into instances in which employees are suspected of operating in cahoots with companies to ensure that plant operations are disrupted, to secure a constant flow of work for contractors, he said.
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