Editor’s Note
ROB ROSE: Mark Pamensky’s Gupta riddle
Questions over what he did at Eskom continue to swirl
Might an unassuming 44-year- old accountant, Mark Pamensky, hold the golden thread to understanding the rotten relationship between the Guptas and Eskom? Last week, after studiously ignoring a barrage of questions from the Financial Mail over his starring role in Thuli Madonsela’s state-capture report, Pamensky unceremoniously quit as a nonexecutive director of Eskom. Pamensky and Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane may be hoping his departure will short-circuit awkward questions when the judicial commission into state capture begins, about the parastatal’s deeply conflicted board and the Gupta family. You can bet it won’t. But first, a précis of the background. From 2007, Pamensky was one of the three men who sweated to build Blue Label Telecoms — the high-flying prepaid airtime company which is buying 45% of Cell C — alongside brothers Brett and Mark Levy. Mark and Brett were joint best men at Pamensky’s wedding, their families braaied together and, as neighbours, Brett and Pamensky would ...
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