Eskom board will decide De Ruyter’s future, says Ramaphosa: The president says the entity needs to up its revenue collection from government departments and municipalities
as to when De Ruyter would be fired over worsening load-shedding, Ramaphosa said any decisions to remove executives would be based on “a process”.have been coming under increasing fire over Eskom’s poor performance from both the EFF and Ramaphosa’s critics in the ANC, who have been demanding their dismissal for the latest wave of rolling blackouts.
The board would be given time to “assess what needs to be done to improve the effectiveness of the generation plan and the effectiveness of management and operations at all levels”. “We have made it clear that non-payment for services is unacceptable and have taken a number of steps to ensure that payment of these debts is recovered,” he said.
Improved revenue collection and cutting debt to Eskom would allow the entity to play its role in implementing a just energy transition through a mixed energy plan, which would also help to address load-shedding.Ramaphosa said that affirmative action and broad-based black economic empowerment policies , which had been put in place to address imbalances created by apartheid, would remain in place.
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