{"id":366622,"date":"2020-01-16T07:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=366622"},"modified":"2020-01-16T07:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T05:06:57","slug":"eskom-appoints-interim-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/366622\/eskom-appoints-interim-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom appoints interim chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent resignation of Eskom Board chairman Jabu Mabuza, the government has appointed professor Malegapuru William Makgoba as interim chair.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Makgoba is a leading scientist and academic who joined the Eskom Board as a non-executive director in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He is the independent lead director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His appointment as interim chair is consistent with the government&#8217;s commitment to good governance and the stability of the company,&#8221; the government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government is going through the process of putting in place a reconfigured board in line with President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s announcement on Friday (Jan 10).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Ramaphosa announced the Government\u2019s plan to introduce a reconfigured Eskom Board with the appropriate mix of electricity industry, engineering and corporate governance experience,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/366098\/no-easy-way-out-of-junk-for-south-africa-but-eskom-is-at-the-core\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No easy way out of junk for South Africa \u2013 but Eskom is at the core<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent resignation of Eskom Board chairman Jabu Mabuza, the government has appointed professor Malegapuru William Makgoba as interim chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":364548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-366622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366630,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366622\/revisions\/366630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}