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RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE

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 with little more than the clothes on his back and a suitcase in his hand.

There was so much secrecy and so much 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

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