Mining Weekly reports that Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown announced on Monday that Dr Ben Ngubane has resigned as nonexecutive director and chairperson of the Eskom board with immediate effect.  

To ensure continuity at Eskom, she said that she had decided to appoint Mr Zethembe Khoza as interim chairperson until she was able to take new board appointments to Cabinet for approval.  Brown made no announcement, however, about who would be appointed interim CEO, after the controversial decision to reappoint Brian Molefe was rescinded at the end of May.  Matshela Koko, who was appointed interim CEO when Molefe stepped down in January in the wake of a damning Public Protector report, is currently on leave, while a forensic and legal investigation into a potential conflict of interest relating to Koko’s stepdaughter, Koketso Choma, is being finalised.  The probe was meant to be completed in May, but the timeframe was extended by the board at the request of the firm of attorneys investigating the matter.

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