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“Management had to report to this war room every Friday at 7am.
“When I got there, the biggest activity taking place at Eskom was reporting to the war room. From Wednesday we must start preparing for the war room report to make sure they are ready by 7am on Friday. It was an untenable situation.
“What is even more strange is that members of the legitimate and legal board of Eskom were not seeing those war room reports. It gets better because the [then] deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was chairperson of the war room
“He was, in fact, the de facto chairperson of Eskom and de facto chairperson of a de facto board that was outside the company.”