“This does not mean there is an instruction going from myself or from my office to appoint any contractor.”
He said various investment banks also approached Eskom from time to time on an unsolicited basis with proposals, again the standard answer was to stress that they had to comply with PFMA process, that Eskom noted what they proposed and a Treasury team at Eskom was involved. Appropriate inquiries were issued and bids assessed before an appointment could be made.De Ruyter explained while artificial intelligence was not a novel concept , it was a novel concept to Eskom.
Ndlozi dismissed De Ruyter's response as “nonsensical”, charging that in many cases, CEOs were involved in the same companies they recommended for work with state entities. “That the CEO must come with a potential company and place it there, [and say] this company should somewhat be dealing with this kind of activity. That's the point I think we need to deal with,” said the ANC's Sakhumzi Somyo.
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