Newsflash: Eskom suspends ‘apathetic managers’, signals ‘urgent culture change’
Eskom Group Chief Executive André de Ruyter suspended two power station managers on Thursday in the wake of Stage 4 load shedding, with the utility citing 'apathetic behaviour by some management staff'. It’s a wake-up call that the managerial incompetence which has long marred Eskom’s...
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“The Board and Executive Management have met twice in the past two days, with the Minister of Public Enterprises, Mr Pravin Gordhan, to interrogate the systemic causes of the load shedding and the measures being taken to repair breakdowns,” the statement said.
“It has been agreed that an urgent culture change and high-level competence enhancement across all 44,000 staff, which the GCE began upon his arrival, should be accelerated, promoted and strongly supported.”