In the 2016-’17 financial year Brian Molefe, then Eskom’s chief executive, received a whopping R8.1 million as a performance bonus.
His sidekick Anoj Singh, Eskom’s chief financial officer at the time, scored a cool R1.8 million bonus, while Matshela Koko, who was group executive for generation (and acting chief executive at one stage), was awarded one of R1.4 million. Not bad for a triumvirate who oversaw, engineered and enabled the entry of one the country’s most notorious and brazen crime families to Eskom and gave them access to the utility’s enormous procurement budget.
Molefe, Singh and Koko are but three of the bad actors the Special Invstigating Unit and Eskom have trained their guns on, in their bids to recoup some of the billions of rands that were lost during the gluttonous years of grand corruption and looting that became known as state capture.