Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
matshela kokolatest news & developments
Justice Minister Mmamaloku Kubayi

Justice minister insists she was not put in place to act against Ramaphosa’s enemies

Mmamoloko Kubayi plans to improve access to the courts and deal with their dilapidated condition

National director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi.   (Photo by Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Felix Dlangamandla)

Batohi asks judiciary to assign state capture cases wisely

It was crucial that trial judges had the necessary skills and experience to hear complex corruption cases, she said

National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Advocate Shamila Batohi.  (Photo by Phill Magakoe/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Batohi questions magistrate’s decision to strike Koko case off the roll

The magistrate took the most drastic option in the case involving the former Eskom chief executive, Batohi said, while conceding that the National Prosecuting Authority was…

Dan Marokane has been appointed as the new CEO of Eskom. Photo: X/@CueSibiya

Experts warn new Eskom boss Dan Marokane to be wary of political interference

Political interference has been cited as the reason for the departure of former executives and board members at the power utility

Former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Renewable energy is incapable of solving energy crisis, says Koko

The former Eskom chief executive believes the answer lies in nuclear power This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail &…

(John McCann/M&G)

The Arms Deal, a gateway to state capture

The players in the weapons scandal involving bribes of about $300 million escaped justice

Matshela Koko. Photo: @koko_matshela

Koko, or a battle for accountability already lost in advance

The National Prosecuting Authority has failed in another state capture case considered only the foothills of the mountain it must climb

Former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Case against Koko and Eskom co-accused removed from roll

The state capture case has suffered long delays, prompting a successful application by the defendants to have it thrown out of court

Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. (Judges Matter)

Zondo commission punished with costs order in Salim Essa case

The order raises questions as to who directs the defence of challenges to the work of commissions of inquiry

Former Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter. (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images)

Eskom, SAA probes for parliament?

MPs must find a way to handle André de Ruyter’s allegations and a protected disclosure accusing Pravin Gordhan of wrongdoing in the SAA sale

Former Eskom chief executive Andre De Ruyter. Photo: Supplied

A grid collapse or blackout would be catastrophic, says Andre de Ruyter in court papers

The maligned former Eskom CEO challenged the notion that it was foolish to shut ageing power stations and focus on procuring more renewable capacity

Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years

In 1997, the warning bells were ringing that South Africa faced a dark future because Eskom would run out of capacity to supply a growing populace and an expanding economy

Projects like the Medupi and Kusile (above) power stations, which experienced extended timelines and higher-than-planned costs, highlight the complexities involved in large-scale infrastructure delivery within parts of South Africa’s public sector

ABB to pay R2.5bn in punitive reparations to SA for corrupt Eskom deal

The money will be used to improve South Africa’s ability to fight serious corruption

Former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Koko, wife and stepdaughters arrested over Kusile power station contract

The three face charges of fraud and corruption stemming from a crooked deal with Swiss engineering firm Asea Brown Boveri

Former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

R3.8-billion Eskom lawsuit against Matshela Koko, Brian Molefe stalls

The former executives are being pursued for the purchase of Optimum coal mine by Gupta-owned Tegeta

Eskom will have to look for money to buy more diesel because the treasury will not advance it more funding than it already has.

Four arrested for corruption in Eskom deal on Kusile power station

The suspects are two men who worked for Swiss engineering firm ABB and allegedly ensured lucrative deals were handed to a company in which former Eskom chief executive Matshela…

R57-billion: How the Guptas played Monopoly with state money

The largest sources of state capture money were Transnet and Eskom, two of South Africa’s most fragile state-owned entities

KwaZulu-Natal residents who are unemployed, financially struggling and hungry have lambasted Eskom’s proposed 36.1% tariff hike. (Dean Hutton/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

‘Rampant corruption’ linked to McKinsey-Trillian transactions, says Zondo

Recommendations by the Zondo commission include investigation and possible criminal prosecution for Brian Molefe, Matshela Koko and Anoj Singh

(Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

High court to hear preservation application against Optimum in March

The Investigating Directorate has filed an application worth R2-billion that could see the mine, the shares Tegeta holds plus debt intended to be converted into a majority stake…

KwaZulu-Natal residents who are unemployed, financially struggling and hungry have lambasted Eskom’s proposed 36.1% tariff hike. (Dean Hutton/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Eskom kept paying because Trillian kept working, Zondo commission hears

Former senior executive Prish Govender tried to justify why payments to McKinsey and the Gupta-linked consulting firm continued in the absence of a contract