Appointment of a board of a Distribution Company
Disco has been functionally separated from Eskom, but it is yet to be legally separated. The board appointments will only be done once the legal separation is complete.
read more >>Appointment of TNPA Board
Mandated by the National Ports Act of 2005, corporatisation has stalled for nearly 20 years. President Ramaphosa revived it in June 2021, with a target for completion by April 2025. However, in April 2025, TNPA reported further delays to the Ports Regulator, citing concerns over Transnet’s financial stability. A ministerial Task Team is now working…
read more >>Proper Chinese walling of Infrastructure Manager in TFR
A temporary Infrastructure Manager (IM) within Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has been established with the aim of creating a level playing field for public and private operators on the rail network. It is still to become permanent. HALTED: We are no longer tracking this specific deliverable as it is deeply intertwined with other reforms related…
read more >>Eskom conditionality
In the 2023 Budget, the finance minister allocated a debt-relief arrangement of R254bn for Eskom and subsequently tabled the Eskom Debt Relief Bill which was enacted in July 2023. The arrangement aimed to strengthen Eskom’s balance sheet in order to enable the utility to restructure and undertake the necessary investment and maintenance to restore the…
read more >>Transnet guarantee conditionality
Government has provided Transnet with a R47bn guarantee facility which is meant to support Transnet’s recovery plan, including meeting its immediate debt obligations. The conditions demand that Transnet focuses on its core activities and introduces private sector partnerships. These conditions are designed in part to ensure the reform of the entity and the broader logistics…
read more >>Independent SOE director and CEO appointment processes
The government has considered this process but the Guide for the Appointment of Persons to Boards and Chief Executive Officers is yet to be finalised. HALTED: We stopped tracking this specific reform at end-June 2025. It is merged into other Zondo recommendations in the Criminal Justice category.
read more >>Removal of ANC deployment committee
The Zondo commission found the ANC’s cadre deployment policy to be unlawful and unconstitutional as it contributed to state capture. The party is resisting the commission’s findings and little progress has been made on this front.
read more >>PSEC made independent
The president established the Presidential State-Owned Enterprises Council (PSEC) in 2020 to support government in repositioning state-owned enterprises (SOEs). It is supposed to have the sole discretion to appoint executive positions to SOEs, based on recommendations from the boards of SOEs. However, there is little evidence of its genuine independence.
read more >>Publication of shareholder compacts
Little movement on this reform. Some entities have sporadically published shareholder compacts in the past but there is no coordinated push for all entities to publish these annually. Additionally, different SOEs publish different aspects of shareholder compacts in different ways. Eskom for example measures its performance against the shareholder compact KPIs in some of its…
read more >>Appointment of NTCSA Board
The Board of Directors of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA) has been appointed. The NTCSA forms part of Eskom’s unbundling process and started operations in July 2024.
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