How world sees SA: Scandal at Eskom – The CEO and the cyanide-laced coffee

The cyanide-laced coffee in the personalised mug of Andre de Ruyter has become what the world sees as a South African/ Eskom scandal.
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By David Pilling for the Financial Times of London

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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