Skeletons are beginning to tumble out in the liquated state owned company BCL Mine and the Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel over the sale of Nkomati Mine in South Africa. Under a barrage of questions from Public Accounts Committe members MPs Dithapelo Keorapetse and Samson Moyo Guma, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security Cornelius DeKop succumbed to pressure and confirmed that Parliament was misled. DeKop admitted that they should not have requested the P450 million from Parliament to pay Norilsk Nickel Group an out of court settlement for the failed acquisition of Nkomati Mine in South Africa. He said at the time due diligence was not done as the case is still before the courts in South Africa. Keorapetse put it to DeKop that Norilsk Nickel were part of the board members of BCL Mine and therefore negotiated with themselves, to which the PS nodded in admission before conceding that such arrangement was wrong. In April 2017 the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development requested a supplementary budget of P450 million to pay Russian company, Norilsk Nickel Group an out of court settlement. Initially the proposal was rejected by the Parliamentary Committee on…