Committee awaiting report on SOEs

Published Sep 28, 2016

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Cape Town - The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) will decide this week whether it will make public the report by law enforcement agencies on corruption in state-owned entities (SOEs).

Scopa chairman Themba Godi said yesterday that the decision would be made this week.

The anti-corruption task team, including the Hawks, National Prosecuting Authority, State Security Agency, Financial Intelligence Centre and other government departments, has until today to hand the report to Scopa.

Godi said the report, to be handed over today by Hawks head Lieutenant-General Mthandazo Ntlemeza, had to have details on each case investigated by the task team.

This would give Scopa an idea of the scale of corruption in state entities.

Godi said they wanted a full report, with case numbers and the charges faced by people involved in corruption in the entities.

“We want to get a picture of how they do their work, and if they are effective.”

The Treasury has clashed with Denel and Eskom over some of the investigations.

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has also been entangled in some of the fights in public after its chairman, Popo Molefe, said the ANC had received R82 million from one of the contractors.

This was part of the affidavit filed by Molefe, an ANC veteran, in the High Court in Johannesburg to stop some of the contracts.

But the ANC denied the allegations and said it had never been the subject of any payment by anyone, including Prasa contractors.

In a written reply to Parliament yesterday, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters said Prasa owed some suppliers R796m.

These included municipalities and Transnet. Other than the court action by the Prasa board to block some of the contracts, worth billions of rands, Prasa is also being investigated by the Public Protector.

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