BUSINESS DAY TV: When inside the system, it is harder to speak out: Part 2
Susan Comrie, investigative journalist at amaBhungane, discusses their exclusive report on claims by former Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi that Eskom CEO Brian Molefe helped the Gupta family buy a coal mine from Glencore.
BUSINESS DAY TV: Susan Comrie, investigative journalist at amaBhungane and she is with us in studio, and of course that on the back of some explosive allegations having been revealed today, looking at Brian Molefe having helped the Guptas hijack a coal mine. Susan, you haven’t managed to speak to Glencore at this stage. Do you know what transpired at that meeting in Switzerland when Mosebenzi Zwane just happened to be there at the same time as the Guptas, and this deal was struck? SUSAN COMRIE: No … We’d all love to know what happened at that meeting and there are probably still more details to come out about that. That’s one of the problems is that meeting was not public, it wasn’t … there weren’t minutes recorded so … BDTV: … why won’t Glencore speak to you? SC: We did speak to them and we put Mr Ramatlhodi’s allegations to them. We also put details about what was alleged to have happened in those last closing days. They just said they’re not going to comment. I think it’s worth p...
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