The task team views the appointment as a blatant disregard for black skills and experience in the process of appointing a CEO.
Andre De Ruyter on his appointment as Eskom’s CEO, the ANC National Youth Task Team has described it as “confirmation of the deep root of white privilege in South Africa’s boardrooms.”
“The appointment of De Ruyter with his long history of eroding shareholder value in major corporations can only be explained in the darker corners of cronyism, which seem to be perpetuated by the minister of public enterprises and confirms that white privilege remains the order of the day in South African boardrooms.
The task team claimed De Ruyter’s track record at Sasol and Nampak made it inconceivable that he should be selected to salvage Eskom. “If there is truth to allegations that De Ruyter is well known for his creative reporting and cooking of the books, then we must brace ourselves for a larger scandal than the catastrophe which happened with Steinhoff. ”
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