Themba Godi‚ chairperson of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public‚ said parliament will discuss corruption in contracts involving Eskom and the Gupta family’s mining company‚ Tegeta.

“Those who were responsible for negotiating those contracts will have to be held accountable … whether he is there or not. The Tegeta mining contracts will be discussed in Parliament in the next two to three weeks to get to the bottom of what looks like the corruption that transpired in these contracts‚” he said on Friday.

“I would imagine that those contracts were done under his watch and what we’ve seen from the PwC reports clearly indicates that something was not right in the way these contracts were managed‚ the way they were structured.”

Godi said he met Brian Molefe on Friday‚ who said he returning to Eskom as its chief executive. This was the same day the power utility had announced the return of Molefe‚ following his interim stint as an ANC MP.

“He complained about the fact that on Wednesday Treasury will be discussing the Tegeta coal contracts and that they would like to give Eskom an opportunity to clear themselves‚” said Godi.

“When Mr Molefe left Eskom‚ the intention was to clear his name and for purposes of good governance.

“Now we understand that the reason he is going back [to Eskom] is the disagreement over the R30 million payout‚ which I think does not reflect well on both Eskom and himself because if the R30 million was indeed deserved and in line with the law and policies‚ then they should have stuck to it because it would have been his legal entitlement.”

Last month‚ the Sunday Times reported that Molefe had for a year withheld crucial information from the Treasury and Parliament about the Gupta family’s coal contracts at the power utility.

According to the newspaper‚ Molefe and Eskom chairperson Ben Ngubane sat on information contained in the PwC report that highlighted several breaches in Tegeta’s R4-billion coal supply contract.