Pretoria - Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has moved to clarify media reports on the appointment of the Eskom board.
“The Minister wishes to clarify and put into context comments that are attributed to him regarding the appointment of a board of directors at Eskom, in a story that appeared in Business Report on 2 April 2015. The report is based on an inaccurate interpretation of the Minister’s comments,” said the Ministry of Finance on Thursday.
This after it was reported that the Eskom board was going to be overhauled.
The Ministry said during the first round of board appointments -- when the proposals of names for the Eskom board were taken to Cabinet in December 2014 -- Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown only appointed 11 board members. The maximum number of members of the board is 13, in terms of Eskom’s Memorandum of Incorporation.
The Ministry said Minister Brown has initiated the process of filling the two vacant positions and will also need to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of chairperson Zola Tsotsi.
“The Finance Minister’s comments that Minister Brown ‘is working on appointing a full board for Eskom, not just a replacement of the individuals but a full board for Eskom’ relate to this process. There is no process to replace the board of Eskom as reported by Business Report,” said the Ministry. -SAnews.gov.za
