EWN reports that fifteen Joburg City Power employees are facing disciplinary action linked to multimillion-rand corruption within the entity.

According to the power utility, some of its employees have been colluding with contractors to defraud it. It was recently reported that City Power received a scathing report from the Auditor-General, which found weak internal controls within the organisation leading to irregular expenditure. In October 2023, a senior manager at City Power sounded the alarm over eight companies defrauding the power utility. This was through the filing of fraudulent, duplicate and inflated invoices. City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena, advised that an investigation into the matter was completed earlier in March. "It was discovered that some of the employees implicated approved payments of contractors' invoices that contained equipment sourced from our very own stores. One of the contractors invoiced City Power for a mini-substation that already belonged to the entity, with the approval of a manager," he reported. Mangena said that only one of the 15 implicated employees was facing criminal prosecution.

• Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Thabiso Goba at EWN

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