“SAP secured the contract in circumstances where there was already an agreement in place [to provide services] SAP sought to provide. [This] was due to expire in 2017. A number of the products purchased by Eskom were not used by it, they were not validly approved by Eskom, and approval was not obtained from National Treasury.”“Eskom incurred fruitless and wasteful expenditure in respect of the enabling and cloud services agreement in the amount of R385m ,” said the SIU.
“The overwhelming probability is the influence used was that of the Guptas, who at that stage owned 50% of CAD,” he said.
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