Ex-Eskom CEO’s brutal attack on Ramaphosa
AFRICA MIRROR REPORTER BRIAN Molefe, a former CEO of South African power utility Eskom has launched an unprecedented attack on the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing him of being used as a pawn by a coal mining company. Molefe, in his testimony before the Zondo Commission into State Capture, also laid into Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, describing him “smooth-talking and dictatorial”. On Ramaphosa, he said the president, a former secretary-general of the ANC and the National Union of Mineworkers, was used by coal mining company Glencore to milk billions out of Eskom. Molefe said Glencore, which bought Optimum coal…