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Cabinet wants De Ruyter to take over from Eskom sooner – They have never sought a white man so quickly. It should be pretty rotten at Eskom

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De Ruyter, currently CEO of the packaging company Nampak, would be appointed Eskom CEO on January 15, 2020. The final cabinet meeting of 2019 instructed Public Enterprise Minister Pravin Gordhan to negotiate with André de Ruyter to take over the reins at Eskom earlier.

Presidency Minister Jackson Mthembu addressed reporters on Tuesday about the December 13 cabinet meeting. He said De Ruyter would lead efforts to stabilize the management and technical operations at the power supply.

“The Cabinet fully supports all efforts that ensure power supply in our country. The Cabinet therefore instructed Minister Pravin Gordhan to De Ruyter to negotiate to start his duties faster, ”Mthembu added.

“Mr. de Ruyter and his management team will immediately address the issues of management and lack of financial management and stabilize operations at Eskom. This includes a major backlog of maintenance of the aging fleet of power stations and structural problems at Medupi a
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27 top black executives were asked to be Eskom CEO – They all said no

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While the government has been criticised for selecting a white executive as Eskom CEO, a new report from the Sunday Times states that 27 black executives were offered the position first.

They all declined.

The report stated that Eskom created a list of the executives it would like for the role of CEO and hired a recruitment agency to contact them.

“All of them said no. A lot of black executives don’t want anything to do with state-owned entities,” a government source told the newspaper.

This was due to the expected political interference and the fact that state-owned enterprises have “ruined a lot of careers and expectations”.

This list reportedly included Eskom board members Nelisiwe Magubane and Sifiso Dabengwa.
White CEO

Following the lack of interest from these executives, it was announced that Nampak CEO Andre de Ruyter would take the position at the head of Eskom.

The National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metalwor
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ANC Youth League calls the appointment of the new CEO of Eksom, Andre de Ruyter, white privilege

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Collen Maine, the youth task team should focus on getting our youth off drugs, crime and creating employment opportunities and not trying to police every white appointed person. In 25 years every black appointed CEO failed Eskom tremendously. Infact, every black CEO appointed to run any SOE what so ever has failed it tremendously.

I honestly don’t believe in the fact that black politicians think everything is racist when a white person steps forward to do a job they couldn’t do. It scares them because they have very little to offer. You see, people that cannot compete or create will vilify those that can. Competant people are a threat to incompetant existence. As long as we are around, we will always be on top of things, and that scares incompetent people.

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New white CEO of Eskom not welcomed with open arms – Numsa: ‘De Ruyter’s appointment as Eskom CEO an insult to Africans’

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The recent appointment of Andre de Ruyter to the position of Eskom CEO has been met with mixed emotions, particularly by trade unions and fervent supporters of the Radical Economic Transformation (RET) agenda.

Although the African National Congress (ANC) has welcomed the appointment of de Ruyter, at a time when Eskom is teetering on the brink of both operational and financial collapse, union allies have been less hospitable.

Andre de Ruyter tasked with turning Eskom around

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), which currently has its hands full with a particularly nasty South African Airways (SAA) strike, condemned the appointment of de Ruyter. The union’s general secretary, Irvin Jim, who has vehemently opposed Eskom’s unbundling strategy, alleging that government is in the process of privatising the power utility, said of de Ruyter’s appointment:

“This constitutes a setback when it comes to the transformation agenda in the co
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