Eskom board chairman Mteto Nyati said the company’s turnaround was executed by “real people on the ground”.
For the past two years, Eskom has engaged in what Nyati described as a “deliberate” maintenance drive. It’s this drive, and not some miracle, that has resulted in South Africa enjoying 148 days – or five months – without load shedding.
Nyati likened the use of the term “miracle” to reporting about South Africa’s transition to a constitutional democracy in the mid-1990s. In the lecture, Nyati described the analytical approach taken by various stakeholders in efforts to turn around Eskom’s fortunes.He attributed the genesis of the turnaround to former public enterprises minister Pravin Gordon’s hiring of the new board, which brought in the appropriate leadership capabilities. Leadership matters at board, executive committee, plant and regional level in Eskom, said Nyati.
“The insight we got changed completely how we wanted to approach this challenge. We tend to think that purely by appointment we have answers to problems, but the answers lie with the people on the ground because they are the closest to the problem,” said Nyati.Of the myriad issues facing Eskom – including debt, dysfunctional organisational culture and a skills deficit – the company’s leadership team singled out the unreliability of the generation fleet as its most pressing issue.
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