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Engineering News reports that the board at state-owned power utility Eskom announced on Thursday that Johnny Dladla had been appointed acting group CEO with immediate effect.
The position of CEO and acting CEO has been vacant since late May, when a decision was made to rescind the highly controversial reappointment of Brian Molefe. His reappointment was ostensibly made in order to avoid a R30-million early-retirement payment, which should not have been approved in terms of Eskom's own rules governing early retirement. Molefe initially stepped down in January in the wake of a damning report by the Public Protector. Moreover, Matshela Koko, who was appointed interim CEO when Molefe initially stepped down, is currently on leave to allow for forensic and legal investigation into a potential conflict of interest relating to contracts with his stepdaughter to be finalised. In a statement, the Eskom board said Dladla's appointment followed "intense consultations" between Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown and itself “to arrive at a prudent choice”.
- Read this report which gives information about Dladla’s background in full at Engineering News
- Read too, Brown appoints four new Eskom board members, at Moneyweb
- And also, Brown orders Eskom to finalise appointment of permanent CEO, at EWN
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