THEBE MABANGA
ESKOM is on a ‘burning platform” to complete its unbundling to overcome its financial and operational challenges, which includes permanently resolving load-shedding in the second half of next year, some 15 years after load-shedding first occurred in 2007.
This is according to Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter, who briefed parliament’s portfolio committee on public enterprises and the Select Committee on Public Enterprises and Communications.
The virtual briefing heard that the unbundling will now happen at an unspecified after 2022.
De Ruyter used the Burning Platform metaphor used by former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop in a 2011 nemo to staff which required the company to radically change its behaviour or be swept aside by rapid change in the smartphone market suggesting Eskom needs to adapt as quickly to its changing environment.
Eskom’s unbundling was first announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa at last year’s State of the Nation Address and
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