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💼💰👔 Business Leadership SA is standing by its decision to provide R18 million towards a risk assessment investigation, which reportedly costs R50 million and was requested by former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter. Read more here 👇

Business Unity South Africa CEO Cas Coovadia and BLSA CEO Busi Mavuso said at a joint media briefing on Thursday that the appointment of George Fivaz Forensic & Risk to investigate corruption at Eskom was not an anomaly but to support the work of law enforcement authorities confronting systemic corruption.ALSO READ:

“Enabling a capable state to provide support to state-owned institutions and other public sector initiatives is in the ordinary [course] of business for BLSA,” Mavuso said.De Ruyter approached BLSA in 2021 to assist with the risk assessment at Eskom, the results of which could be handed over to law enforcement authorities to further investigate or prosecute. He has on numerous occasions lamented the high levels of crime and corruption at Eskom.

“We were also aware that it was a matter of public knowledge that the Eskom CEO was … trying to get the authorities involved in dealing with that. So the work he asked us to fund, in our view, was work that would actually enable the authorities [to act],” said Coovadia.

 

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