Eskom chairperson Ben Ngubane has resigned from the company’s board with immediate effect.<\/p>\n
Public enterprises minister Lynne Brown announced late on Monday night that\u00a0Ngubane has resigned as non-executive Director and chairperson of the board of Eskom.<\/p>\n
Brown said that Ngubane tendered his resignation, and she accepted.<\/p>\n
“To ensure continuity at Eskom, I have decided to appoint Mr Zethembe Khoza as interim Chairperson,” the minister said.<\/p>\n
“I would like to thank Dr Ngubane for his contribution to turning Eskom around since the load shedding days and wish him well,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ngubane has been one of former CEO Brian Molefe’s biggest defenders throughout his recent reappointment scandal, and has more recently been implicated in the ongoing state capture saga.<\/p>\n
Former mining minister\u00a0Ngoako Ramatlhodi alleged that Ngubane and Molefe put pressure on him to blackmail Glencore into selling Optimum coal mines to the Gupta family.<\/p>\n
Ngubane denied the claim, saying that a board chair could not exert power over a sitting minister.<\/p>\n