Gupta acolyte Collin Matjila is the man who, perhaps more than any other single individual, opened the door for the family to start plundering Eskom’s R50bn-a-year coal budget. This emerges from an account by Eskom’s head of primary energy, Vusi Mboweni, of a meeting he attended in 2014 with Matjila, who was acting CEO at the time, and Gupta executive Ravindra Nath, at a hotel in Melrose Arch. If you are already a subscriber, please click on the following link below to go to the full article:How the Guptas were let loose on Eskom. If you would like to subscribe to BusinessLIVE Premiumto read the full story, please click here stephanh@businesslive.co.za

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