Tshediso Matona
Photo by: Duane Daws
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown confirmed on Wednesday that Tshediso Matona, who has been appointed as the new Eskom CEO, would assume his duties at the State-owned power utility on October 1, 2014.
She also announced that Matsietsi Mokholo had been appointed acting director-general at the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), following the appointment of Matona, who was the department’s previous head.
Mokholo, hitherto the DPE’s deputy director-general for legal and governance, began acting as director-general and accounting officer at the department on September 1, 2014.
Mokholo holds B Proc and LLB Degrees from the then University of Durban-Westville and completed her articles of clerkship at Haarsbroek & Boezaart Attorneys, in Pretoria, while simultaneously attending her practical legal training at the then Law Society of Transvaal.
She joined the Black Lawyers Association and became of the founding members of the Black Lawyers Candidate Attorneys Forum.