NEWS ANALYSIS: Brian Molefe shirks questions at hearing in Parliament
On each of the big corruption issues, the former Eskom head was somewhere else at the time or had ‘a long story’
Brian Molefe, Eskom’s former CE, was grilled by Parliament’s public enterprises committee for four hours on Tuesday evening. He put up a good fight: he passed the buck; he avoided direct answers; he did not know; or had not been told. On each of the big corruption issues, Molefe was somewhere else at the time, had "a long story" to tell and most often referred to now suspended chief financial officer Anoj Singh, whom he indicated repeatedly was the one responsible for implementing many of the decisions that are now under the spotlight. But in the end, Molefe — whose wily intelligence is widely admired — may have avoided admitting any guilt on the big things, but he was tripped up by small mistakes and some wild implausibility, as he failed to keep track of what he had said and done before and what he knew or didn’t know. The thing about lying is that you have to remember the lie.The first issue under scrutiny, which is also Molefe’s immediate concern, was the matter of his Eskom pen...
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