Public Protector agrees to DA’s request to investigate Brain Molefe
24 July 2017
The DA can confirm that the Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has agreed to investigate the disgraced former Eskom CEO, Brian Molefe, for the R30 million ‘golden handshake’ he received from the power utility.
The DA requested the investigation after it emerged that the Eskom board approved a R30 million pension payout to Molefe after only 18 months as CEO of Eskom.
Following the public outrage surrounding the irregular “golden handshake” which later became a “performance bonus”, and then a “pension payout” - this investigation is long overdue.
This outrageous payout is a gross abuse of public funds, especially after Molefe resigned “in the interests of good corporate governance” after his close ties to the Guptas were revealed in the damning State of Capture Report.