LETTER: Warmest regards for Eskom’s late Ian McRae
‘Sitting with him in his office and listening to him was like being in a master class’
17 July 2020 - 14:51
I was privileged to have met and served on the same [Eskom] board of directors with the late Ian McRae from the mid-1990s to early 2000.
I was invited to join the board of Rotek Industries, a transformer maintenance company, by then CEO, Bruno Penzhorn. At 38, I felt inadequate sitting alongside this giant of the electricity industry who had so much knowledge and experience. McRae’s name was synonymous with the massive electrification of Soweto, among many other projects...
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