{"id":172533,"date":"2017-04-26T13:18:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T11:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=172533"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:18:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T11:18:06","slug":"eskom-granted-more-time-to-reconsider-molefes-pension-pay-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/172533\/eskom-granted-more-time-to-reconsider-molefes-pension-pay-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom granted more time to reconsider Molefe\u2019s pension pay-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has granted the Eskom board more time to resolve through a mutually beneficial consultation process a pension pay-out to its former Group chief executive, Brian Molefe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe board has asked for more time to finalise their internal process and in the interest of fairness, I have acceded to it,\u201d Minister Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Brown on Sunday declined the board\u2019s proposal and urged the board to urgently engage Molefe. The board had to forward an appropriate pension proposal within seven days to the Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [board] chairperson, Dr Ben Ngubane, approached me this week and he indicated that the process has started. However, he requested an extension, which I have granted,\u201d minister Brown said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/172459\/high-court-strikes-down-russia-sa-nuclear-deal-all-nuclear-deal-propasals-declared-unconstitutional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">High Court strikes down Russia-SA nuclear deal \u2013 all proposals declared unconstitutional<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has granted the Eskom board more time to resolve through a mutually beneficial consultation process a pension pay-out to its former Group chief executive, Brian Molefe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-172533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172535,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172533\/revisions\/172535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}