By Thomas Hartleb
Johannesburg – Acting Eskom CEO Brian Molefe is awaiting further instruction from government on if his tenure will be extended beyond July, he said on Wednesday.’
“I serve at Eskom at the pleasure of the board and the minister [of public enterprises] and I await further instruction,” he said during a briefing on the state of the country’s power system.
Molefe was appointed Transnet CEO in 2011 and seconded to Eskom in April this year.
Acting Eskom chairperson Ben Ngubane referred to Molefe as the “very successful CEO of Transnet” and said the length of his tenure at Eskom was an “open discussion”.
“We are aware that his time is coming to an end, so probably these discussions will start soon,” he said.
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