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BRIAN MOLEFE: I WAS IN HOSPITAL! Mfundekelwa Mkhulisi Brian Molefe testified at the Zondo Commission yesterday. Photo by Gallo Images/Papi Morake. FORMER Eskom CEO Brian Molefe denied being involved in the R1,6 billion paid to the Gupta company Tegeta. Molefe told the Zondo Commission yesterday that he was in hospital when the transaction happened. “I have no comment on that. I was not part of prepayment. I only got to know about it after I came back from hospital,” he said. He said he was admitted on 1 December 2015 and the prepay...

The Zondo Commission has once more been caught in a rigmarole around how Brian Molefe was appointed Eskom CEO in 2015. According to Henk Bester, former managing director of rail at engineering firm Hatch Global, Gupta lieutenant Salim Essa boasted in a meeting that Brian Molefe would head up Eskom. Essa made this prediction in 2014, exactly a year before Molefe was appointed. According to Bester, Essa said the Guptas had immense power and could appoint executives to do their bidding at parastatals as they pleased. “ They had decided Molefe was going to be the CEO of Eskom. You will see the ...