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BL Premium reports that Eskom’s departing head of legal and compliance, Mel Govender, doesn’t believe the state-owned utility’s former CEO brought the organisation into disrepute with the comments he made during a controversial TV interview in February.
The interview led to Andre De Ruyter’s swift departure instead of him serving an extended notice period until end-March. He had resigned in December 2022. Govender, who will be leaving at the end of June, disagreed with the speedy “termination” of De Ruyter’s contract and questioned whether due process had been followed. She also advised against legal action against De Ruyter, which is under consideration by Eskom, for the revelations he made in his book Truth to Power, which was published last month. Govender said this in answer to questions from members of parliament’s standing committee on public accounts during a meeting at Eskom’s head office at Megawatt Park on Tuesday. Govender reported that she had conveyed her discomfort about the termination of De Ruyter’s contract with the executive team the day after it happened. But, at the end of Tuesday’s proceedings, Eskom's acting chairperson Fathima Gany said the board rejected Govender’s view that De Ruyter's contract had been terminated. De Ruyter had offered to serve out his notice until end-February, which he did at home, and that was accepted by the board, she claimed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Linda Ensor at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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