EDITORIAL: Eskom elite run out of road
In Saxonwold and in Nkandla the search is on for a fresh bunch of candidates
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown’s account of how and why Brian Molefe was reinstated as CE of Eskom casts her as a hapless observer of the Eskom board and its capricious decision-making. As she often has before, Brown took the Jacob Zuma defence — "I didn’t know; I was not aware; nobody told me" — in her affidavit outlining events pertaining to the reinstatement. If all that is true and Brown really was unaware of the terms of Molefe’s employment contract, the undertaking by Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane to grant him early retirement and the board’s decision to top up the pension fund to the tune of R30m, what will she do about it now that she is finally aware of the facts? Well, at last it seems she has been prodded into activity, even if it was just to throw Molefe under the bus. Although she initially told the court she would oppose the DA’s application to overturn Molefe’s appointment, by Monday when she filed her affidavit, she had changed her mind and withdrew her opposit...
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