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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Johannesburg – Controversial former interim Eskom chief executive Matshela Koko on Tuesday indicated that he would oppose the power utility’s bid to cross-examine him at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.<\/p>\n

Koko, who resumed giving evidence at the inquiry on Tuesday afternoon, has seven calendar days to file his affidavit responding to Eskom\u2019s application, commission chairperson Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo notified him.<\/p>\n

Justice Zondo said the commission\u2019s legal team would also have seven calendar days to indicate whether or not it intended opposing Eskom\u2019s application.<\/p>\n

Koko\u2019s advocate, Frans Barrie SC, informed the commission that his client would oppose Eskom\u2019s application for various reasons, but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n

Evidence leader advocate Pule Seleka SC assured Justice Zondo that there had been documentation the commission had been exchanging with Koko\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n

Seleka\u2019s assurances follow concerns raised earlier this week by Justice Zondo ahead of Koko\u2019s testimony and the failure to send notices to the people he was scheduled to implicate in his evidence.<\/p>\n

Seleka told Justice Zondo the commission\u2019s legal team had complied with the requirement to notify the implicated parties, if not in full then at least in part, as Koko has previously testified at the commission.<\/p>\n

Barrie also complained that Seleka sent Koko\u2019s legal team a letter with a \u201cparticularly objectionable tone\u201d on December 22.<\/p>\n

Seleka\u2019s response followed a December 2 letter from Koko\u2019s lawyers raising various issues and Barrie on Tuesday demanded to know whether Justice Zondo was aware of it.<\/p>\n

In the letter, Koko\u2019s lawyers were handing the commission information on corruption, irregularity and malfeasance at Eskom, which it had asked to be made available to it.<\/p>\n

Barrie said Koko\u2019s legal team assumed it carried Justice Zondo\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n

However, the country\u2019s second most senior judge said the response was that of the commission\u2019s legal team and not necessarily his.<\/p>\n

According to Barrie, the commission is refusing to investigate corruption, irregularity and malfeasance at Eskom, including allegations made by Koko that mining giant Glencore received preferential treatment from the power utility.<\/p>\n

Other allegations that Koko wants the commission to probe include Eskom supplier Just Coal\u2019s alleged bribery of the power utility’s officials and corruption.<\/p>\n

Koko added that one of Just Coal\u2019s directors publicly admitted bribery and corruption at a parliamentary inquiry, and that he wanted some Medupi and Kusile power stations contracts also to be investigated.<\/p>\n

\u201dI need to have a meeting with members of the legal team and the secretary of the commission,\u201d said Justice Zondo.<\/p>\n

He promised to look at correspondence between Koko\u2019s legal team and the commission, and get briefed fully about where everything is.<\/p>\n

Justice Zondo said commission secretary Professor Itumeleng Mosala did not appear to have done much about the Promotion of Access to Information Act request from Koko\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n

He undertook to find time before the end of this week to have a meeting, so that he could be briefed fully on what the challenges were about the requests by Koko\u2019s legal team<\/p>\n

\u201dI would like this matter to settled as soon as possible,\u201d Justice Zondo said.<\/p>\n

Barrie complained that Seleka had informed Koko\u2019s lawyers that the commission did not have time and capacity to investigate the Kusile and Medupi matters.<\/p>\n

Koko had also demanded that the commission investigate the matter involving Japanese company Sumitomo, which erstwhile Eskom chairperson Zola Tsotsi unlawfully committed to pay R69 million to buy transformers.<\/p>\n

The commission will continue hearing Eskom-related evidence when the power utility\u2019s ex-chief financial officer, Anoj Singh, appears on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Political Bureau<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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