African Rainbow Energy & Power (AREP) chairperson Patrice Motsepe has acknowledged that his company has a serious perception problem – one that will persist for as long as his brothers-in-law, Cyril Ramaphosa and Jeff Radebe, occupied the positions of President and Energy Minister respectively. Speaking during a recent media briefing, he likened it to his football team, Mamelodi Sundowns, playing in a CAF Champions League game where the referee and the assistant referees were relatives. AREP, he added, had a “fundamental perception problem”.