Jaap Burger: MPs subpoena brigadier over Eskom corruption probe
Parliament’s Scopa has ‘unanimously resolved’ to subpoena Brigadier Jaap Burger after he failed to appear before it on numerous occasions.
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Parliament’s Scopa has ‘unanimously resolved’ to subpoena Brigadier Jaap Burger after he failed to appear before it on numerous occasions.
On Wednesday, Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts deliberates allegations of corruption and other financial irregularities at Eskom.
We are all complicit — whether by fault or default — in the widescale collapse that is unfolding in South Africa today. It is our responsibility to engage in the political realm and actively shape the politics we want. In a functioning democracy, the citizenry can hold power to account.
The ruling ANC cannot be tasked with rebuilding what it has itself broken in recent years. It is now too involved in the dysfunctionality of the current state of South Africa, with the Eskom crisis a case in point.
The Zondo Commission names and shames 45 Eskom-related persons for their involvement in the type of irregularities of which André de Ruyter complains. It seems Fikile Mbalula might have forgotten.