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BL Premium reports that the tussle between the State Security Agency (SSA) and parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) over the obligation of the SSA to account to the committee on its vetting of Eskom officials, remains unresolved.
The SSA is now seeking legal advice on how to proceed. Parliament’s chief legal adviser, Zuraya Adhikarie, told Scopa the SSA does have an obligation to account to Scopa and if it refused to do so it could be summonsed. The SSA argues it is legally required to report only to parliament’s joint standing committee on intelligence (JSCI) and has elevated the matter to a higher authority in parliament in a bid to resolve the impasse in view of the different legal opinions. Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele, who is responsible for the SSA, and deputy minister Zizi Kodwa appeared before the committee on Wednesday. Kodwa said Eskom remained the biggest challenge in terms of vetting of officials. This was allegedly not due to the ineffectiveness of the SSA but the failure of the applicants to submit the required information. He singled out Eskom CEO André de Ruyter as having failed since June to submit information. In a response, Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said that “Eskom is not aware of any request by the SSA for any documentation [form] for the vetting process of its CEO dating back to June. Only in October 2022 did Eskom receive the vetting documents for processing by the CEO and other executives in Eskom who have been in this position since January 2020.”
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