Matona: I was removed from Eskom to make way for corruption
Former Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona has told the commission of inquiry into state capture that he believes he was removed from the parastatal to make way for corrupt activities.
Matona was removed in 2015 – only five months after he was appointed.
Matona said he was told by the former Eskom board, led by Zola Tsotsi, that he is being suspended after a call by former public enterprises minister Lynne Brown and former president Jacob Zuma for an inquiry into the affairs of Eskom.
"The problems Eskom were grappling with were not new and had build-up for a long. I did not think that an inquiry was necessary because we knew the problems, what was required were solutions."
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The commission’s chair, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, asked Matona how a new board, which had never worked with him, wanted him to be removed.
"The events that followed in Eskom after I was ousted, including the appointment of Brian Molefe and other changes, which resulted in allegations around various matters made me suspect that I was probably removed to make way for some of those things,” Matona said.
“I have no facts either than what I have seen being reported after my departure from the organisation.”