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A baseball cap, a scraggly beard, a pair of sunglasses. Private security on high alert. A bullet-proof car. An escape into the night.
It sounds like the makings of a spy movie, yet all this and more went down the day André de Ruyter fled the country.
There was so much secrecy and tension it almost didn’t feel like real life, a close confidant of the former Eskom CEO says.
The source, who’s speaking to YOU on condition of anonymity, says André had no choice but to flee. He’d upset many people in high places following his eNCA interview in February when he’d made astonishing allegations of deep-seated corruption.
There’d already been an attempt on his life last year when his coffee was laced with cyanide. He’d found a bugging device in his vehicle and he was receiving death threats. He had to get out.
“André called me and said he was going to flee the country and go to America,” the source says.
