Calib Cassim appointed as Eskom interim CEO

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Calib Cassim appointed as Eskom interim CEO

Eskom has appointed chief financial officer (CFO) Calib Cassim as its interim group chief executive officer (CEO) following the exit of André de Ruyter.

The utility said it was pleased to announced that Cassim would take the reigns with immediate effect.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Gordon_R]

In before "you have to be an engineer to run Eskom"...

 

[GMAN03]

Again with the "until further notice"

 

[zeb]

Does he have to sign a NDA?

 

[Iamn0tageek]

"Eskom thanked Mr. Cassiems family"

Probably gave a "gift" or let R50 000 fall on the ground in their house

"Excuse me ma'am, you seemed to have dropped this"

I don't expect anything will change

 

[wbot]

Great, eskom is saved!! Loadshedding will soon be over!

 

[Slowestclock]

More NB, he was a CFO

Nothing quite like having an accountant run an energy company especially one that can't gets it's **** together financially speaking

 

[GMAN03]

Great, eskom is saved!! Loadshedding will soon be over!

With a bean counter running it we'll more likely be at stage 12 soon

 

[Joe Average]

Looks like the MAFIA.

 

[AlphaJohn]

No better person to help the R254 billion "injection" disappear like the chief financial officer that was in charge of finances with the other billions going "missing"

 

[Jam Sandwich]

No better person to help the R254 billion "injection" disappear like the chief financial officer that was in charge of finances with the other billions going "missing"

It does make cents...

 

[FiestaST]

A Brown guy, good! I asked for this a while back.

Let's see how it goes.

 

[Hemi300c]

Anyone currently in Eskom is not the right appointment because they must be aware of the crimes and have done nothing to stop it and hence nothing will change.

 

[Gazg]

Lmfao.........so another "non engineer". Where are the comments?

 

[Jefferson D'Arcy]

A Brown guy, good! I asked for this a while back.

Let's see how it goes.

The brown guy presided over 20 years of financial malfeasance and regulatory irregularities. He has also deftly avoided any media/journoscum eye, not that they're worth a damn anyway.

 

[Morpheos]

20 years experience. Great. So he nows all the loop holes. Good choice...

 

[Sapphiron]

In before "you have to be an engineer to run Eskom"...

At this point, the head of Eskom is old King Coal anyway

 

[Former member 61586]

Solution is actually quite simple. Let the DA and/or FF+ have carte blanche over Eskom. DA will probably fck us with price hikes much like the current numpties, but it will all work within a year.

 

[Fuzzbox]

Surely as the CFO he should also be asking the hard questions.
He just coasts along and watches the money disappearing.
He will make a good CEO.

 

[Decarin]

If he's an accountant then he should be able to reduce Eskom's debt.

Oh wait he's been there 20 years so he oversaw Eskom's debt soaring to new heights.....

Just a bit of dark humour. Seeing as we will all be sitting in the dark. For a while.