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A screengrab of former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko appearing at the state capture inquiry on 29 March 2021. Picture: SABC/YouTube

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Koko: I wasn't recommended for Eskom job by ANC deployment committee

By Nthakoana Ngatane

Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko was clarifying his position at the state capture commission on Tuesday after President Cyril Ramaphosa avoided detailing which...

  • FILE: Deputy Chief Justice Zondo during the first public hearing on state capture allegations in Johannesburg on 20 August 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Salim Essa appears to have to modified Eskom suspension letters, Zondo told

    State capture commission investigator, Professor Cecil Louwrens, said that his analysis of the Eskom suspension letters showed the creator as Suzanne Daniels.

    391 days ago
  • A screengrab of former head of legal and compliance at Eskom, Suzanne Daniels, appearing at the state capture inquiry on 15 September 2020. picture: SABC/YouTube

    Daniels: Phone call to a Gupta brother led to Koko suspension being called off

    Daniels has told the state capture inquiry there was a unanimous decision by the power utility's people and governance committee to take action against Koko.

    418 days ago
  • A screengrab of former Eskom company secretary Suzanne Daniels giving evidence via video link to the state capture inquiry on 16 March 2021. Picture: SABC/YouTube

    Daniels: Koko took special interest in settling penalties imposed on Optimum

    Former Eskom company secretary Suzanne Daniels is testifying remotely at the state capture commission.

    426 days ago
  • Matshela Koko: Suzanne Daniels lied to the state capture commission

    Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko has told the commission of inquiry into state capture that former Eskom legal head Suzanne Daniels had lied to the commission many times. Koko returned to the hot seat on 1 March 2020.

    441 days ago
  • FILE: A screengrab of former Eskom executive Matshela Koko appearing at the state capture inquiry on 1 March 2021. Picture: SABC/YouTube

    Suzanne Daniels knew Salim Essa, Koko tells Zondo Inquiry

    Koko said even when the infoportal email helped him to apply for visas for him and his family to travel to Indonesia - he still didn’t know that it belonged to Essa.

    441 days ago
  • FILE: A screengrab of former Eskom head of generation Matshela Koko appearing at the state capture inquiry on 11 December 2020. Picture: SABC/YouTube

    State capture inquiry: Koko contradicts himself over Essa email address

    Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko is going round in circles about how and when he found out that the 'infoportal' email address was linked to Gupta associate Salim Essa.

    441 days ago
  • FILE: A screengrab of former Eskom executive Matshela Koko appearing at the state capture inquiry on 1 March 2021. Picture: SABC/YouTube

    Koko at Zondo inquiry: I didn’t know I was emailing Gupta associate

    The former Eskom boss told the state capture commission that he didn’t know about the terms of the Tegeta guarantee that were sent from that email address.

    441 days ago
  • A screenshot of Former Eskom employee Suzanne Daniels. Picture: SABCNews/Youtube

    Daniels says Koko misled Zondo Inquiry over prepayment to Optimum Coal Mine

    Suzanne Daniels said while Matshela Koko instructed her to draft a board resolution to prepay the Optimum Coal Mine R1.68 billion, he didn’t specifically say ‘issue a guarantee’ - yet it was eventually done.

    451 days ago
  • Former head of legal at Eskom, Suzanne Daniels. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    WATCH LIVE: Former Eskom head of legal Suzanne Daniels testifies before Zondo

    On Friday Eskom's former head of legal and compliance, Suzanne Daniels, testified at the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture.

    451 days ago
  • FILE: A screengrab of former Eskom head of generation Matshela Koko appearing at the state capture inquiry on 11 December 2020. Picture: SABC/YouTube

    Koko 'shocked' to learn email address he thought was Ngubane's belonged to Essa

    Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko told the Zondo Commission that he had been given the email address by Eskom's former head of legal and compliance, Suzanne Daniels, who said that it was board chair Ben Ngubane’s personal email account.

    489 days ago
  • A YouTube screengrab of former Eskom secretary Suzanne Daniels at the state capture commission on 7 December 2020.

    Daniels testimony: Koko told me to write letters on prepaying Tegeta R1.6bn

    The former head of legal and compliance at Eskom is back at the state capture commission testifying about board decisions to approve the Tegeta prepayment as well as Brian Molefe’s appointment.

    525 days ago
  • FILE: Deputy Chief Justice Zondo during the first public hearing on state capture allegations in Johannesburg on 20 August 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Judge Zondo: State capture commission will not be dictated to by anyone

    Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo on Monday said the commission would not be dictated to but said it had remained committed to treating witnesses fairly.

    525 days ago
  • A YouTube screengrab of former Eskom secretary Suzanne Daniels at the state capture commission on 7 December 2020.

    Koko was Gupta associate Salim Essa’s ‘pet’, talked to him often, Zondo told

    The state capture commission on Monday heard Eskom-related evidence from the former secretary at the power utility Suzanne Daniels.

    526 days ago
  • A screengrab of former head of legal and compliance at Eskom, Suzanne Daniels, appearing at the state capture inquiry on 15 September 2020. picture: SABC/YouTube

    Essa offered Daniels R800m to ensure Koko became Eskom CEO, Zondo Inquiry told

    Suzanne Daniels alleged that Salim Essa made the offer in June 2017 after pulling up alongside her at a fuel station in a black Maserati and that he knew precisely what she had said at an earlier meeting of Eskom’s audit and risk committee about Koko.

    608 days ago
  • A screengrab of former head of legal and compliance at Eskom, Suzanne Daniels, appearing at the state capture inquiry on 15 September 2020. picture: SABC/YouTube

    I met Gupta associate Essa through Koko, says Ex-Eskom company secretary Daniels

    In an affidavit before the commission, Koko denied that the meeting ever took place, but Daniels has told deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo that Koko was lying.

    608 days ago
  • A screengrab of former head of legal and compliance at Eskom, Suzanne Daniels, appearing at the state capture inquiry on 15 September 2020. picture: SABC/YouTube

    Daniels grilled on Eskom board move to halt advertising with certain newspapers

    The decision, in 2015, followed reports in the newspapers about fraudulent conduct, maladministration and corruption at state-owned entities, including Eskom, Transnet and Denel.

    608 days ago
  • FILE: Former head of legal at Eskom, Suzanne Daniels. Picture: EWN

    WATCH LIVE: Zondo hears evidence from ex-Eskom company secretary Suzanne Daniels

    Former Eskom company secretary Suzanne Daniels is giving evidence at the state capture inquiry.

    609 days ago
  • FILE: Former head of legal at Eskom, Suzanne Daniels. Picture: EWN

    Hawks to probe Suzanne Daniels' admission of unlawful conduct

    Daniels admitted on the 'Eusebius McKaiser Show' on Wednesday that she unlawfully signed off on the R800,000 payment of former board chair Ben Ngubane’s legal fees.

    1153 days ago
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