Cape Town — Eskom’s board will meet to start the processing of selecting its new CEO after it announced the implementation of stage 4 load-shedding from o5:00 on Tuesday, then stage 6 from 16:00.
Eskom chair Mpho Makwana announced that the board will meet on Monday, but did not indicate when the board expects to complete the process, TimesLIVE reported.
The utility has shortlisted five candidates for the role, but has not divulged who they are.
“We’ve been quite advanced in the shortlisting process for the next new chief executive of Eskom, such that we now have a small shortlist of five candidates,” News24 quoted Makwana as saying.
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Meanwhile, Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said he is currently unable to commit to a “definitive” end date to load shedding.
According to EWN, Ramokgopa said although he had identified a set of “critical interventions” to maximise the energy availability factor of the country’s coal generation fleet, he could not definitively commit to when load shedding would end.
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