Jacob Maroga, currently managing director of Eskom’s transmission division, has been appointed chief executive officer designate. A date for the handover will be announced later.
The announcement was made on Thursday by Eskom board chairperson Valli Moosa in a statement.
The Cabinet on Wednesday endorsed the board’s recommendation to appoint Maroga. He will replace Thulani Gcabashe, who has served two terms as chief executive.
Gcabashe indicated at the time of accepting his second term in 2004 that he would not be available to extend his contract for a third term.
Maroga was the unanimous recommendation of the board after an eight-month selection process.
Maroga joined Eskom in 1995 as the distribution technology manager. He moved on to engineering manager in the northern and north-eastern regions of distribution before being appointed to the executive committee as managing director in September 2000.
Moosa said that Gcabashe had served with distinction and had demonstrated “extraordinary skill, grace and courage” during a challenging period of transformation.
The R97-billion expansion programme currently under way would stand as “a monument to his perseverance and leadership” said Moosa, a former minister of the Environmental Affairs and Tourism department. – I-Net Bridge