Eskom board member with Gupta links and named in probe resigns

Mark Pamensky, who is a director of a company owned by South Africa’s Gupta family that has ties with President Jacob Zuma’s son, resigned as a board member at state-owned Eskom Holdings, less than a week after the utility’s chief executive officer’s quit. Recommendations will be made to the cabinet “soon” on how the power company’s board will be strengthened, Public Enterprise Minister Lynne Brown said in an e-mailed statement announcing the resignation on Tuesday. Pamensky has been a non-executive director at Eskom since December 2014.