Andre de Ruyter aims to lighten SA’s load as tenure at Eskom begins
The new CEO had been due to start work on January 15, but the crisis at Eskom persuaded him to start early
06 January 2020 - 15:56
Eskom’s new CEO took charge of the crisis-plagued utility on Monday, embarking sooner than planned on the mammoth task of fixing a national power deficit and restructuring debts that have hobbled SA’s economy.
Andre de Ruyter, appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa in November, will oversee a government plan to split state-owned Eskom into three units — for generation, transmission and distribution — in an attempt to make it more efficient...
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