BusinessLive reports that in papers filed at the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday, Solidarity claimed that Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown knew about Brian Molefe’s employment contract at Eskom.  

The trade union’s Deon Reyneke said Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane wrote to Brown two months after Molefe’s initial appointment in November 2015 to make arrangements for Molefe’s retirement.  Ngubane’s letter to Brown contradicts her statements to Parliament that she had nothing to do with Eskom’s employment relationship with Molefe.  She said on Tuesday:  "When Mr Molefe quit Eskom in November 2016, I was under the impression he had resigned.  I was not aware that he had applied for early retirement.  This I only learned in April 2017, after reading in the media that Mr Molefe was receiving a R30m payout from Eskom."  But in a letter attached to Solidarity’s affidavit, Ngubane sought Brown’s approval to include these provisions in Molefe’s five-year contract.  Solidarity has joined the DA in asking the court to review and set aside Eskom’s recent decision to bring Molefe back as CEO.

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