{"id":83959,"date":"2015-03-31T08:05:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T06:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=83959"},"modified":"2015-03-31T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T06:05:33","slug":"eskom-chairman-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/83959\/eskom-chairman-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom chairman is out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom chairman Zola Tsotsi has stepped down, the electricity provider announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On its official Twitter page, Eskom wrote: &#8220;Eskom board and chairman Zola Tsotsi have this morning agreed to part ways amicably. Dr Ben Ngubane has been appointed acting chairman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said Tsotsi agreed to step down &#8220;to allow the board to focus on the core issues facing Eskom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acting chairman Ben Ngubane thanked Mr Tsotsi for the selfless decision he took in placing the interests of the company first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/83547\/eskom-not-in-crisis-as-ceo-challenges-suspension\/\">Eskom \u2018not in crisis\u2019 as CEO challenges suspension<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/83527\/eskom-chair-sits-firm-insists-theres-no-crisis\/\">Eskom chair sits firm, insists there\u2019s no crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/83351\/what-its-like-to-be-white-and-work-at-eskom\/\">What it\u2019s like to be white and work at Eskom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom chairman Zola Tsotsi has stepped down, the electricity provider announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-83959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83959","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83961,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83959\/revisions\/83961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}