Cabinet has approved a new board of directors at Eskom, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan said on Friday.
Rod Crompton will be retained on the board “to ensure continuity”. CEO André de Ruyter and chief financial officer Calib Cassim, both executive directors, will remain in the roles.
The appointment of the new board, made up of senior business and trade union figures, comes after electricity outages reached record levels this year. Saddled with unreliable coal-fired power stations and a mountain of debt, Eskom has struggled to meet electricity demand for more than a decade.President Cyril Ramaphosa has been trying to reform Eskom to make it more efficient since becoming head of state in 2018, but his administration has made slow progress, fuelling public frustration.
Eskom has had vacancies on its board for several years. Since January 2020, its board has been headed by Malegapuru William Makgoba, who took up the post after the previous chairman resigned during another period of major power cuts. — 2022 NewsCentral Media, with additional reporting by Alexander Winning and Kopano Gumbi, 2022 Reuters
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