DA leader’s claims baseless Mabuza

Deputy president David Mabuza says he is not the cabinet member said to be involved in the alleged large-scale corruption and pure criminality at Eskom power stations.

Those who are trying to link him to the allegations are merely using the problems at Eskom as a political football.

Mabuza has denied allegations by DA leader John Steenhuisen that he was the senior cabinet member allegedly involved in corruption at Eskom.

Mabuza issued a statement yesterday, saying he had continuously pleaded with Steenhuisen to report him to the police if he had such evidence.

He says those calls have amounted to nothing. Instead, Mabuza charged that Steenhuisen has used the allegations to gain popularity and score cheap political points.

Steenhuisen claimed that Mabuza was the senior person that former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter was referring to when he said a senior politician was involved in the contracts, hit squads and all sorts of crimes at Eskom.

In an interview, De Ruyter told eNCA’s Annika Larsen that “there was one particular high-level politician involved in this” and that he had told a cabinet minister about it.

For him to resort to such sleazy tactics just to score cheap political points is disgraceful and undermines the stature of honourable parliamentarians David Mabuza