Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown’s longtime lover and a close associate scored lucrative oil tenders from Eskom despite having no expertise in the industry. E Smart Solutions, owned by Brown’s partner, Ingrid Tufvesson, and Michelle McMaster, the mother of Brown’s former personal assistant, Kim Davids, scored two contracts worth R1.2m in just five months this year. The other director is Davids’s sister, Serisa Bernice Davids. The revelation reinforces concerns that Brown has been protecting former acting CEO Matshela Koko — who in turn tried to buy her favour by channelling the contracts to Tufvesson’s company. Koko reportedly told friends that Brown would not dare fire him because he had dirt on her. Tufvesson, a "higher education academic and transformation consultant", this week admitted that E Smart Solutions had no experience in the oil industry. "The company isn’t in the oil business," she said. The two contracts are to supply oil to Eskom’s transformers at 10 power sta...
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