Bruce’s List: A daily guide to informed reads.It is getting harder and harder to write about government. It is clearly falling apart. Policy is not being followed, if not actively under attack from within the state, and nor is new policy being formulated. We are adrift and government is at war with itself. One day this could all end up in court. Eskom CEO Brian Molefe must tread carefully. The problem, as it so often is, is the Gupta family. Eskom has showered, since long before Molefe arrived, business over the Guptas. Since he arrived the floodgates have opened. First he paid the Guptas with more than R550m in what is essentially working capital after they bought the Optimum coal mine from Glencore late last year. It was called an advance on coal yet to be delivered. Now we learn that another Gupta coal operation, Tegeta (Tegeta is part of the Guptas’ listed businesses, Optimum is not) has been supplying Eskom with substandard coal and that Eskom has suspended the managers who obj...
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