A black-owned company that was “forced” by Eskom to share lucrative work with a white firm has highlighted the alleged anti-transformation approach of the power utility.
Internal Tutuka documents also show that MK Metals’ contract was terminated in April last year after the company’s tax clearance certificate expired, which disqualified it from doing work at the plant, as well as at Duvha power station in Mpumalanga. These revelations come in the wake of Friday’s statement by the state-owned entity that it had suspended the managers of Mpumalanga-based Tutuka and Kendal power stations following another round of Eskom-sanctioned crippling blackouts across the country.
“Only a forensic audit of the work done by both MK Metals and Scrapcore will reveal how this arrangement came about, but there’s no will from Tutuka management to do the probe. No one at Tutuka wants the truth revealed,” said a source, who asked to remain anonymous. MK Metals managing director Antony Mtshali rejected claims that his firm had approached Scrapcore, adding he had documentary evidence that he was not at liberty to share, citing legal implications. Mtshali declined to comment further.