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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Johannesburg – A former Eskom board member has rejected claims by the power utility\u2019s erstwhile acting chief executive Matshela Koko that she tried to organise business for her husband.<\/p>\n

Venete Klein, who served on the Eskom board between December 2014 and May 2017, responded to Koko\u2019s allegations that she harbours resentment against him for refusing to assist her husband Dr Harold Klein procure a project management contract for his company as part of the power utility\u2019s conversion of its diesel driven open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) generation plants to gas driven plants.<\/p>\n

\u201dI refute Mr Koko\u2019s version completely,\u201d Klein told the commission of inquiry into state capture on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

She said her husband\u2019s company was on Eskom\u2019s project management panel as he is a civil engineer and that she had asked Koko to intervene in a matter of suspected fronting after he (Koko) had been appointed the power utility\u2019s interim chief executive.<\/p>\n

According to Klein, she was not going to take the matter to the board as it was operational. She said the commission could go through her declarations to check if there was anything untoward.<\/p>\n

Koko previously told the commission that in January 2017 Klein phoned him and requested that they should meet at her Mooikloof, Tshwane home.<\/p>\n

He said Klein stated that she had a private issue that she wanted to discuss with him and that her husband participated in the meeting.<\/p>\n

Koko said the Klein informed him that they had a \u201cproblem\u201d and Mrs Klein needed him to solve it.<\/p>\n

The problem, according to Koko, was that Dr Klein\u2019s company had tendered for project management contracts on the conversion of the OCGT units to gas project, but was not getting the jobs.<\/p>\n

Koko said he arranged a meeting and called in Eskom\u2019s chief audit officer and members of the OCGT gas conversion project team but left them to address Dr Klein\u2019s complaints.<\/p>\n

\u201dMrs Klein\u2019s attitude towards me changed from that time. She must have expected that I would cause the contracts that had allegedly been \u201cirregularly\u201d awarded to be channelled to her husband,\u201d Koko told the commission.<\/p>\n

Klein will continue giving evidence on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

[email protected]<\/p>\n

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

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