Lynne Brown denies putting Gupta-linked people on Eskom board

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A 2018 report found the former public enterprises minister often failed to take appropriate responsibility for a large set of impugned decisions taken by the Eskom board

Former public enterprises minister Lynne Brown has refuted claims that she populated the Eskom board with Gupta-linked people.

She said when he listed that he was a director of the Gupta’s Oakbay Resources and Energy, Brown asked him to resign or choose between the company and Eskom. “So it wasn’t something I constructed in order to get a particular grouping of people in. I followed a process,” Brown told the commission.“Many of them did not have anything to do with the Guptas.”

On Friday, Brown was asked whether she had any relations with the Guptas. She told the commission that she knew the eldest brother, Ajay, but none of the others. Brown said she met Ajay Gupta about 13 or 15 years ago when she was still the MEC of finance in the Western Cape, long before she was appointed minister of public enterprises.

“Eskom was no longer a going concern ... It was spending so much money in trying to keep the lights on by purchasing diesel,” Brown said, adding that the lack of maintenance at plants was also an issue.

 

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They all deny everything. No one who was in charge can tell us how we got in this mess

You spelled Lying Browne wrong.

Didn't her close associate score lucrative oil tenders from Eskom despite having no expertise in the industry?

She is lying. Mark Pamensky is proof of that.

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Yet another useless female minister. When was there last even a semi competent female minister?

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