Nozipho Ntuli worked as a buyer at Eskom in Mpumalanga. Between October 2016 and May 2019 she used that position to award tenders to Phoenix Motion Enterprise (R5,380,646), Hustle Hard Development (R2,231,380) and Itireleng Masheleng (R913,712) — companies controlled by her partner Edward George Sekatane, his uncle Alfred Lebogang Sekatane and associate Thulani Harries Mahlalela. Total prejudice to Eskom was R8,525,738.
The Hawks' Mpumalanga Serious Corruption Investigation unit built the case. On 18 August 2026 the Middelburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court convicted Ntuli of fraud and the three men, together with their companies, of money laundering under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act. Sentencing was postponed to 19 October 2026; the Asset Forfeiture Unit is seeking a restraint order over the accused's assets.
Set against Eskom's R21 billion diesel contract this is a small case. It is in the archive because it is the rare Eskom procurement matter that has produced convictions — of the buyer and every beneficiary — and because the mechanism, a single insider routing awards to family companies, is the one that scales.