Engineering News reports that the Public Servants Association (PSA) has condemned the appointment of Eskom chairperson Jabu Mabuza as the power utility's acting chief executive, saying it expected that the entire board and senior management of Eskom to be replaced after it posted disastrous financial results on Tuesday.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan announced on Monday that Mabuza would serve as the interim CEO of Eskom for three months after Phakamani Hadebe's resignation left the position vacant. This means that Mabuza is now Eskom's interim executive chairperson, acting chief executive of Eskom Holdings, and acting group chief executive of Eskom. The PSA said Mabuza's dual roles showed a lack of good cooperative governance, especially with the power utility having lost R20.7-billion for the 2018/19-financial year. "It cannot be that the minister of public enterprises could not find any better-qualified candidate for this position in the entire country," the PSA said. The union also noted that there had been no progress on how to rescue the utility financially during Mabuza's time as Eskom chairperson.
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- Read the PSA’s press statement in the above regard at Politicsweb
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