Molefe agreed to return to the post of Eskom chief executive last week after resigning as an ANC MP.
News broke that Molefe would return to his former job at Eskom next week after he and the board could not come to an agreement over a pension payout.
Koko has worked at the state power utility since 1996 and replaces Brian Molefe.
Backdoor deals will be struck as the president refuses to go down without a fight, analysts say.
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown admitting receiving a call from the Guptas on the morning that she was sworn in as minister.
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown insists that despite the concern of a constrained energy supply, Eskom privatisation is not an option.
Suspended SAA boss Monwabisi Kalawe strikes serious allegations against SAA chairperson, Dudu Myeni, and her drive to "control" all SAA decisions.
While deputy president Ramaphosa assures the country that the Eskom boardroom shenanigans "are not squabbles", Eskom’s controversial chair stays put.
The Companies Act prevents public enterprises’s Lynne Brown from involvement in the utility’s operations, but she thinks the board is united.
If minister Lynne Brown doesn’t fire Eskom chair Tsotsi and he doesn’t voluntarily step down either, the mineworkers’ union will remove him by force.
Amid another Eskom power battle, public enterprises minister Lynne Brown says all she’s interested in is finding a solution to the power crisis.
And the Cabinet’s ‘war room’ has lost patience with the utility’s handling of the crisis it faces.
No rolling blackouts were expected over the weekend, power utility Eskom said on Saturday.
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown finds herself at odds with Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson over how to resolve the Eskom crisis.
The ANC says state-owned enterprises are making negative headlines in the news every day and a new task team will get to the bottom of these problems.
With South African Airways in desperate need of a cash injection, an industry expert says the airline must either "shed jobs or "increase routes".
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has hit back at DA’s demands for more transparency on Eskom and said parties needed to work together.
Dudu Myeni has defied an order from Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown, which will test her pull with the president.
The embattled parastatal needs a fighter at its helm, critics say
The power utility says load shedding may worsen this winter as it battles with electricity outages attributed to its antiquated power stations.
New Minister of Public Enterprises Lynne Brown vows there will be changes at the top level of many of South Africa’s state-owned enterprises.
Hout Bay residents are fighting tooth and nail to stop the construction of an office block on Chapman’s Peak drive by the operators of the toll road.
Lynne Brown, ANC leader of the opposition in the Western Cape, has rejected suggestions she will resign following Marius Fransman’s election.
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/ 19 February 2010
Opposition parties heavily criticised the ANC’s economic policies, but offered few constructive alternatives at a Critical Thinking Forum this week.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s land conspiracy is misleading and just more hot air, the African National Congress said on Saturday.
Bringing you the must-have gossip in the run-up to the ballot.
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/ 24 February 2009
In what it described as a ”pro-poor” budget, the Western Cape provincial government on Tuesday promised to combat the threat of job losses.
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/ 3 February 2009
After six months in the Western Cape premier’s office, Lynne Brown has still not made herself too comfortable behind the big desk.
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/ 6 September 2008
Capetonians have a seemingly endless capacity for being astonished by the weather, which is strange, as we have a lot of it.
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/ 5 September 2008
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has accused cellphone giant Vodacom of helping the ANC-controlled Western Cape government to illegally spy on her.
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/ 2 September 2008
The Western Cape government has no intention of challenging Monday’s high court ruling on the Erasmus commission, according to Premier Lynne Brown.
More and more women are taking their rightful places in the top structures of government and business, writes Ilse Ferreira.