BUSINESS NEWS - Law firm Dentons says there’s definitely room for further investigation of Eskom’s state of affairs and has confirmed the power utility stopped the probe citing budget constraints as one of the reasons.
Dentons was appointed to investigate, among other issues, what lead to a complete blackout in the country in 2008, costing the economy billions of rand.
Eskom suddenly stopped the investigation after a draft report was tabled to the board with the probe - at that stage costing R20 million.
The utility has denied reports that it sanitised the outcome of the investigation, saying it first wanted to deal with the findings internally.
Dentons Managing Director Noor Kapdi says Eskom stopped the investigation explaining that the findings were more or less what they expected them to be and didn’t want to go ahead in order to save money.
