Governance

September 15, 2025

Appointment of Genco Board

Genco has been functionally separated, but it is yet to be legally separated. The board appointments will only be done once the legal separation is complete

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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.

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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…

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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…

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New framework including reform conditionality

To achieve financial sustainability, National Treasury has adopted increasingly stricter measures and approaches to bailing out SOEs. The framework is meant to manage bailouts to SOEs to reduce fiscal risks and induce reforms within SOEs and the sectors they operate in by attaching conditions to these bailouts, as evidenced by the bailouts to Transnet and…

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