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The IFP's Dr Mario Oriani-Ambrosini MP has again requested Ms Vytjie
Mentor MP, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public
Enterprises, to ensure that Eskom make available to Parliament its
submission to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa, as a
matter of urgency.

In a letter to Ms Mentor, Dr Oriani-Ambrosini said yesterday: "I am
writing to remind you that Eskom undertook to give us a copy of its
application to Nersa after it had been decided upon, which it now has
been, and to give us copies of all the contracts it entered into
binding it to a long-term tariff arrangement, whether such tariffs are
fixed or adjustable, for as long as they are not equally subjected to
the same tariff regimen as ordinary South Africans are.

"As it was made in Committee, this request is both in respect of
domestic and foreign entities. I would like to receive copies of such
documents as soon as possible.

"Because of your ruling that Eskom could not disclose to us the
intended tariff increase, the deliberations we held when Eskom
appeared before us a few weeks ago could not perform the intended
function of oversight. Eskom told us why they intended to do it, but
not what they intended to do.

"Now that we know the measure of the tariff increase, which is way
above what most of us thought it would be, we are finally in a
position to interrogate Eskom's actions and exercise our
constitutionally mandated oversight function."

In conclusion Dr Oriani-Ambrosini called on Ms Mentor to urgently
facilitate a meeting between Eskom and the Portfolio Committee of
Public Enterprises.

"I request that Eskom be recalled at the earliest possible time and
that public hearings be held so that we may supplement our
understanding of the present situation with information provided to
the Committee by other stakeholders and experts, so that our oversight
function does not rely exclusively on the information supplied by
Eskom," said Dr Oriani-Ambrosini.