Andre de Ruyter, the new CEO of embattled state power utility Eskom, has experience trying to turn around struggling companies.

He will move to the power utility after almost six years in charge of bottle and beverage-can maker Nampak, where he’s had to overcome economic downturns in key markets including SA and Zimbabwe while struggling to export foreign-exchange revenue from Nigeria and Angola, which suffered from a collapsing oil price...

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