According to The Citizen, a report in Sunday World details how former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe’s personal assistant committed suicide after she was demoted from his office on his instruction.  

Thembi, the mother of Gugulethu Mbatha, said her daughter couldn’t handle being demoted at work after she couldn’t find Molefe’s passport prior to an overseas trip last year.  When it was eventually located in her drawer, she took the blame for not finding it in time.  Mbatha was ordered to take three weeks leave and upon her return was told Molefe had requested to work with someone else as she was untrustworthy.  This led to Mbatha’s depression and she overdosed on pills at home last November.  Thembi claimed: “Eskom led my daughter to suicide.”

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