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Scandal at South Africa’s Eskom: the CEO and the cyanide-laced coffee

Scandal at South Africa’s Eskom: the CEO and the cyanide-laced coffee

The attempted poisoning of André de Ruyter is a dramatic example of how organised crime cartels have seeped into the country’s state.

André de Ruyter knew something was not right when he started to feel dizzy and nauseous after drinking a coffee.

At the time he was chief executive of Eskom, South Africa’s collapsing electricity utility, and to his surprise, he found himself forgetting simple words, even the term “power station”.

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