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Fin24 reports that the head of security at Eskom, Karen Pillay, has been on suspension on full pay for more than nine months as the company continues to "investigate" a single contract awarded during her tenure in July 2022.
Pillay, an advocate and a former investigator at the Directorate for Special Operations, was suspended in June last year over an emergency contract awarded to Fidelity Services to investigate coal theft at Eskom's 12 coal power stations. Eskom has not yet initiated a disciplinary hearing against Pillay. The Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) allows contracts to be awarded without a competitive tender process, where circumstances require an immediate procurement. The contract to Fidelity was signed off by former chief executive André de Ruyter and chief operations officer Jan Oberholzer. It was also approved by Eskom's board of generation and executive committee. The need for an "emergency" procurement arose after explosive reports on the threat posed to Eskom by organised crime, revealed in "intelligence reports" by a private investigating firm. At the time, De Ruyter and Oberholzer believed that Eskom faced an existential threat from the syndicates. The intelligence reports were later partially discredited.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Carol Paton at Fin24
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