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SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Lynne Brown’s big Eskom blunder
Free to read from Financial Mail's archives. Lynne Brown’s allowing Eskom to destroy the allegations of corruption makes her guilty of concealment
First published in March 2017.
Ever since I first met her I have been struck by Lynne Brown’s refreshing, motherly spirit. Talking to the public enterprises minister, you feel you are talking to someone you can do business with. Not for her any treading on eggshells. She speaks in a frank manner, like the teacher she was. She has the ability to instill some confidence in her listeners. Unlike so many politicians and businesspeople who seem to think their silver tongues can magically convert fiction to acceptable reality, this former United Democratic Front activist has no time for linguistic gymnastics. She has a tendency to be too frank. Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane found that out the hard way in January. In a media briefing at Eskom’s headquarters, Brown blasted Ngubane’s lies right out of the water, with very little effort. She told those assembled that the Dentons report into Eskom’s near-collapse was “inadequate for use by the company” and that the probe was “incomplete”. In plain language she was saying the r...
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