Eskom CEO's suspension challenge struck from the roll
Updated | By Olivia Phalaetsile
"The application is struck from the roll," Judge Benita Whitcher said.
He was suspended on March 11 after refusing to step aside as chief executive so the board could hold an inquiry into the crisis at the power utility.
Whitcher agreed that Eskom's board did not give him time to defend himself before suspending him.
But, she believed, the board had serious concerns about problems at the parastatal.
These problems were already in the public domain and lifting his suspension now would not suddenly remedy the alleged damage to Matona's reputation.
She believed the case he had filed at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation, and Arbitration was where it should
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