Fin24 reports that former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe has lost his third appeal regarding R11m he received from Eskom as part of a R30m pension payout when he left the state-owned entity.  

According to a statement issued by trade union Solidarity, one of the respondents in the matter, Molefe’s application to the judge president of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) for leave to appeal was dismissed for the third time with a punitive cost order.  Eskom had paid out the monies to Molefe, following his resignation in November 2016.  News of the pension payout only surfaced after his reappointment as group CEO in May 2017.  Solidarity approached the courts in November 2017 to declare the payout to Molefe unlawful.  In January 2018, the North Gauteng High Court ordered Molefe to pay back part of the R30m pension payout.  Molefe appealed the judgment, but this was dismissed in April 2018.  Molefe then approached the SCA to review the decision of the high court.  That too was dismissed, with costs, on 5 October.  Molefe then submitted a review application on 1 November, which has now also been dismissed.  "Molefe is painting himself into a corner in an attempt to circumvent the law, and one can only hide behind court processes for so long," said Deon Reyneke, Solidarity's deputy general secretary for the energy industry

• Read the original of Lameez Omarjee’s report on the above matter at Fin24
• Read too, Brian Molefe loses another appeal against paying back pension, at BusinessLive
• Read Solidarity’s press statement at SA Labour News

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