At its peak in the 2000s, Sipho Dube’s resources company employed more than 1 200 people and sold two-million tonnes of coal a year, 1.2-million tonnes of which was exported. That’s before the mining firm was “unlawfully” liquidated.
Today, Dube is angry that, more than three years after the public protector released a report showing gross maladministration that led to the liquidation of his company, nothing has been done to implement the remedial actions of the December 2018 report. Subscribe to the M&G today for just R30 for the first three months* to gain access to this story and all our best journalism, subscriber-only newsletters, events and a weekly cryptic crossword.