PetroSA boss storms newspaper

21 November 2014 - 02:21 By TJ Strydom
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PETROLHEAD: PetroSA chairman Tshepo Kgadima is escorted out of the Times Media Group building in Rosebank after he confronted Business Day editor Songezo Zibi over a story published about him yesterday
PETROLHEAD: PetroSA chairman Tshepo Kgadima is escorted out of the Times Media Group building in Rosebank after he confronted Business Day editor Songezo Zibi over a story published about him yesterday
Image: SIMPHIWE NKWALI

Controversial PetroSA chairman Tshepo Kgadima stormed into the Times Media Group's Johannesburg offices yesterday 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 coal-mining project called LontohCoal.

Skweyiya is considering laying criminal charges against Kgadima over the R3-million 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.

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