PetroSA boss storms newspaper... gets ejected

Controversial PetroSA chairman Tshepo Kgadima stormed into the Times Media Group's Johannesburg offices demanding to speak to the editor of Business Day, Songezo Zibi, who had published a story that painted him as an alleged fraudster.

Kgadima was later removed by security guards.

"He wasn't threatening. He was just obstinate. He wouldn't give his cooperation," Zibi told The Times.

Samuel Mungadze reported in Business Day yesterday that former cabinet minister Zola Skweyiya was one of more than 250 aggrieved people who had invested their money in Kgadima's coalmining project called LontohCoal.

Skweyiya is considering laying criminal charges against Kgadima over the R3m he allegedly lost. He told Business Day yesterday that Kgadima ran a "swindling" scheme and made promises of large profits.

Kgadima arrived at the newspaper with a video camera and asked to tape Zibi.

Kgadima also made accusations about Mungadze but refused to answer questions related to the published story, Zibi said.

Source: The Times, via I-Net Bridge

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