A senior South African government minister denied Wednesday there was extensive corruption within the ruling African Nations Congress party in relation to the country's financially-crippled power utility, although he did concede a 'few' might have...
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan was answering questions from lawmakers in Parliament at a hearing focusing on the graft at the state-owned national electricity supplier that has contributed to Africa’s most developed country facing a power crisis and daily blackouts. It has raised fears that the electricity supply could collapse.
Gordhan, who was South Africa’s finance minister from 2015-17, was appearing before a multi-party oversight committee following serious allegations made by former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter, who said in a television interview in February that the ANC and high-ranking politicians were involved in the corruption.
The ANC is the party of the late Nelson Mandela and the only party to have governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, although its popularity has steadily decreased and it faces national elections next year where its outright majority could be under threat. Eskom said in a statement Monday that it had measures in place to avoid a total national blackout amid fears that if South Africa’s electricity grid does go down, it could take days or weeks for the supply to return, shutting down the stock exchange, banks and other critical institutions.
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