Brian Molefe appeals against court order to pay back R11m of package
Disgraced former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe has launched an appeal against the judgment by the High Court in Pretoria, which has ordered him to pay back close to R11m paid to him as part of his early retirement package.The damning judgment handed down last Thursday by the full bench of the court said that the early retirement agreement that allowed Eskom to extend the benefits to Molefe was unlawful and had to be set it aside.The deal guaranteed Molefe a R30.1m pension fund benefits.Molefe has now argued that the full bench was wrong to find that he was not entitled to be a member of Eskom pension and provident fund, as his original contract of employment, "unlimited in duration, included as a term of the contract that he would be a member of the pension and provident fund".In his appeal papers, Molefe said that the court "erred" in its findings, including that his resignation from Eskom in 2016 was not linked to the agreement.The court ruled that Molefe and Eskom had conspired to affor...
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