South Africa\u2019s second-biggest labour union federation called for Eskom Holdings board and senior management to resign as it rejected a finding that cleared the utility\u2019s chief operating officer of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
Eskom said on Friday that internal investigations and a court judgment on a payment dispute with contractor Aveng Ltd. exonerated COO Jan Oberholzer.<\/p>\n
A subsequent opinion by Nazir Cassim, an advocate, also cleared Oberholzer and brought a grievance procedure against him to a close, it said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n The South African Federation of Trade Unions, which includes an affiliate that is the second-largest union at Eskom, said in a 15-page statement on Saturday that Eskom\u2019s findings didn\u2019t represent what was found in the investigations.<\/p>\n It also objected to the treatment of a\u00a0whistleblower<\/span>\u00a0who reported alleged wrongdoing to a government-convened judicial commission.<\/p>\n \u201cSAFTU calls for the urgent intervention of President Ramaphosa and the immediate resignation of the Eskom board,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n The dispute with the union is another headache for Eskom Chief Executive Officer Andre de Ruyter, who took office in January and is trying to turn around a utility that is 488 billion rand ($28 billion) in debt and is struggling to supply the country with sufficient power.<\/p>\n Eskom declined to comment.<\/p>\n
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