15 City Power employees face disciplinary action linked to corruption worth millions

JOHANNESBURG - Fifteen Joburg City Power employees are facing disciplinary action linked to multimillion-rand corruption within the entity.

The power utility said that some of its workers were colluding with contractors to defraud it.

Eyewitness News recently reported that City Power received a scathing report from the auditor-general, which found weak internal controls within the organisation leading to billions in irregular expenditure.

In October 2023, a senior manager at City Power sounded the alarm over eight companies defrauding the power utility.

This was through filing fraudulent, duplicate and inflated invoices.

City Power spokesperson, Isaac Mangena, said that an investigation into the matter was completed earlier in March.

"It was discovered that some of the employees implicated approved payments of contractors' invoices that contained equipment sourced from our very own stores. One of the contractors invoiced City Power for a mini-substation that already belonged to the entity, with the approval of a manager."

Mangena said that only one of the 15 implicated employees was facing criminal prosecution.