After weeks of government spin that President Cyril Ramaphosa himself would announce the new Eskom group chief executive officer, in the end the news broke in a statement from Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.
The other much-touted names were former Eskom boss Jacob Moroga and ex-Eskom group capital executive Dan Marokane, who was one of the four senior officials alongside then Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona suspended in March 2015 by then public enterprises minister Lynne Brown in what later emerged was a State Capture-related play. All four were subsequently cleared in an Eskom inquiry by July 2015, but by then had left the power utility.
Initially, Gordhan had indicated the new Eskom CEO would be announced in early November, when on the eve of October’s medium-term budget policy statement he published the long-awaited Eskom special paper – itself supposed to have been released by the president, passed between National Treasury and Public Enterprises, with two self-setThat pledged announcement didn’t happen, and speculation was rife the announcement would come from Ramaphosa during the SA Investment Conference from 5-7 November.
Right now the troubled power utility is back at the edge of load-shedding, issuing almost daily alerts about how constrained the system is.
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