Under intense criticism from business leaders, opposition parties and the public after nearly three straight weeks of power outages, the government is planning a shake-up of Eskom’s board, which has drawn scrutiny for its lack of engineering expertise.

The department of public enterprises, headed by Pravin Gordhan, said in a statement on Tuesday that the board has been informed of sweeping changes...

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