BUSINESS Leadership South Africa (BLSA) says it disagrees with those calling for the resignation of Eskom CEO André de Ruyter and his leadership team following the most recent intense period of load-shedding.
In a statement, BLSA noted that the State-owned utility had had ten CEOs in ten years, creating instability that “only served to make a bad situation worse”.
“We simply cannot afford to again lose the momentum built by this leadership team over the last 20 months, bearing in mind the extremely difficult circumstances they inherited and under which they are operating.
“Causing a renewed leadership crisis would set us further back in the challenging task of securing the country’s power supply,” BLSA, an association that includes some of the largest domestic and foreign enterprises operating in South Africa, said.
In an earlier statement, representative business body Business Unity South Africa (Busa) also rejected calls for the resignation of
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