{"id":844388,"date":"2025-11-24T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=844388"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:39:05","slug":"eskom-pays-out-r580-million-legal-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/844388\/eskom-pays-out-r580-million-legal-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom pays out R580 million legal settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stefanutti Stocks will receive R580 million from Eskom as per a settlement following a dispute linked to the Kusile Power Station.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October, the Dispute Adjudication Board ruled that Stefanutti is entitled to an additional payment of R685 million, excluding value-added tax, from Eskom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parties had been in a dispute over work done at the Kusile power station &#8211; the world\u2019s most expensive coal-fired power station.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eskom claimed that Stefanutti was overpaid by R1 billion for its work at Kusile, while Stefanutti argued that Eskom owed it money.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eskom expressed dissatisfaction and indicated that it intended to have the award set aside in its entirety by the High Court of South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Eskom were successful, Stefanutti said that Claim 5, which refers to its claims up to the end of December 2019, would be referred to arbitration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would recommence the entire claims process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind, the Board of Stefanutti approached Eskom with a view to reaching a settlement for their disagreements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stefanutti and Eskom, today, 24 November 2025, signed a full and final settlement agreement for an amount of R580 million (excluding VAT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This constitutes a mutual settlement of all actual or potential claims, disputes, or entitlements either party may have against the other due to the Kusile contract.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the agreement, Eskom must pay the total amount by 12 December 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of a facility with Standard Bank, Stefanutti will utilise at least 80% of the proceeds from the settlement to settle its outstanding facility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanutti Stocks will receive millions in compensation from Eskom following a dispute over work done at the Kusile Power Station. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":792582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,15085],"class_list":["post-844388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-stefanutti-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844427,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844388\/revisions\/844427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}