South Africans are heaving a sigh of relief, not because they see some light at the end of Eskom’s long, dark tunnel, but at last Eskom’s big fish are getting caught.
First to get hooked was the big one, Gupta shark Brian Molefe. Excited about its big catch, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) cast its bait for another big one, (Matshela) Koko who had been swimming in the deep, feeding voraciously on Eskom.
The NPA managed to hook all of them: the former Eskom chief, his wife, two stepdaughters and four others on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering in relation to the R2 billion irregular contract for the building of Kusile power station.
While Koko and three others were released on R300 000 bail, the other four were…