M&G reports that former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe will this week argue that the ruling ANC usurped the power of a cabinet minister in having him summarily dismissed from the state-owned power utility.  

It was the ANC, not public enterprises minister Lynne Brown nor the Eskom board, that really wanted him kicked out as CEO, Molefe says in heads of argument now before the Labour Court in Johannesburg, where he is due to ask for his (most recent) removal as CEO to be overturned.  The assertion, due to be argued on Tuesday and Wednesday, further complicates an already convoluted set of arguments.  None of the four parties involved now dispute the basic facts of Molefe’s extraordinary departure, return, and departure again from Eskom.  On what those facts mean in law, however, the parties do not see eye to eye – in particular whether he was dismissed or not.

• Read this informative report by Phillip de Wet at Mail & Guardian
• See too, Molefe challenges dismissal in Labour Court, at eNCA

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