Urgent oversight visit to investigate Alexkor following corruption allegations

THE Portfolio Committee on Minerals and Petroleum Resources has resolved to conduct an urgent oversight visit on Alexkor.

- BANELE GININDZA

This follows a briefing from the Equitable Access Campaign (EAC) on its petition for investigations into reports of general accountability failure, maladministration and corruption at State diamond miner Alexkor.

This move comes in the wake of the EAC's insistence on launching a public inquiry to address the apparent collapse of accountability mechanisms over the past five years, during which Alexkor has continually received audit disclaimers.

EAC's Gavin Craythorne, who this week addressed the portfolio committee after petitioning the Speaker of Parliament, told Business Report on Wednesday that several inquiries into anomalies at Alexkor were shut down without the public getting the answers.

These include parliamentary appearances, a forensic investigatipon by Gobodo Consultants, and former Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's State Capture Commission hearings into Alexkor.