Disgraced former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe will probably know on Thursday whether his pension payout was lawful. The High Court in Pretoria is due to rule on Thursday on the payments Molefe received in December 2016. Union Solidarity, later joined by other parties including the DA, approached the high court in 2017 seeking an order declaring as unlawful Molefe’s pension, which amounted to R30.1m. Molefe received the "golden handshake" from the power utility after he left its employ in December 2016, despite having worked there for only 16 months. His departure followed damning observations about him by former public protector Thuli Madonsela in her State of Capture report. Molefe became an ANC MP in February 2017, but returned to Eskom in May after Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown queried the R30.1m pension payout. Less than a month into his job at Eskom‚ Brown instructed the board to rescind its decision to reappoint Molefe. Eskom formally dismissed him on June 2. Public Protec...
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